Bulk delete items and folders from Sharepoint document library using Powershell

Fri, 10 Aug 2018 12:35:48 +0000

I’ll cut to the chase. A lot has been written about how to handle large lists and how to handle bulk deleting things. To summarise: getting all items and iterating one by one is *not* the way to do it.

The right way to do it is to use the ProcessBatchData method on the SPWeb object.

Have done this plenty of times in C# but this time I wanted to cut straight to Powershell. A quick Google later and I found Daniel Root’s boiler plate. It properly handles checked out files as well, and deletes folders. Ideal!

Tech on Matt Thornton

Bulk delete items and folders from Sharepoint document library using Powershell