At various times of the month I have a need to delete up to 13K records at a time. Sometimes I can only delete a few records at a time until the large number of records are deleted. I get Server Timed Out Errors, Tranaction was deadlocked, A general Unknown Error. In most cases I can only delete 200 records at a time...sometimes less. I cannot just empty the recycle bin. I try to delete the records in parallel to the deletion but this takes ~60 seconds for each 200 to be deleted. cindi bethel carmona

This will also have a knock on effect for your storage quota. When I had this problem, I changed the application recycle bin to empty every few days. If you do this, it would clear out the items for you typically. In your instance, I'd suggest using Powershell to empty the bin, due to the size of your content, and to keep a commandlet handy so you can re-use it. Kirk Evans has a good blog entry on this very topic that you can use. Please have a look and let us know if you have any problemsSteven Andrews | SharePoint Professional | http://www.twitter.com/backpackerd00d | https://baron72.wordpress.com/

Cindi, There is a common issue occurred in emptying large recycle bins. You can try below solutions to clear second stage recyle bin : Solution 1: Power Shell script http://blog.stevienova.com/2011/03/07/sharepoint-2007-2nd-stage-recycle-bin-and-content-db-size/ Solution 2: A custom code based on SharePoint API to flush the large files from the second stage recycle bin. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ajithas/archive/2009/09/08/deleting-very-large-objects-from-the-second-stage-recycle-bin.aspxLeonid Lyublinski Wizard of MOSS