Robert Nesius cried from the depths of the abyss... > Did you delete a lot of files, or a very few large ones? I'm wondering if your backup service is keeping a file-handle open on a backup vault. It was over a million very small files. I killed off the backup service to this file share before I deleted the files. I setup a new box to store the email archives. I re archived to the new box. The last chore was to purge the backups on the old box.