Unable to delete because files in use (SMB on OS X)

[John45622]

<div class="bbWrapper">Hi,<br /> <br /> I've been having this issue since FreeNas and it still happens on TN13. When trying to delete a folder containing a couple of hundred items OS X will open a progress bar for the operation then go through them and then throw up an error that says something like &quot;can not delete because files are in use&quot;. Obviously none of them are ever in use when this happens.<br /> The only way to delete the folder is to open it, select all the files in there and delete those. Which usually takes for eeeeeever. Sometimes they ar deleted at a pace of 1 file per second or 3 seconds. Only then I am able to delete the parent folder.<br /> <br /> It can literally take days to delete large project folders.<br /> <br /> I tried every OS from Mojave to the current Monterey with no difference. I also tested this with various dataset presets (SMB/AFP dataset, multi-user time machine etc.) makes no difference.<br /> <br /> Is this normal? Is anyone here able to delete a folder that contains a ton of files via OSX and SMB?<br /> <br /> What's also weird is that it takes about 5 Minutes to copy 300 small files (1GB) to the server but 3 minutes to copy a 14GB QT file is this normal?<br /> <br /> Many thanks!<br /> <br /> P.S.: I don't have any AUX parameters set. The datasets are all at default settings. And I have full read/write permissions on these volumes.</div>

 

[Glorious1]

<div class="bbWrapper">I get a similar problem using AFP on MacOS. Even deleting files directly (not a folder of them) I get that error often. If I eject the share, then remount it, I can delete the files.</div>