Increase "delete items" speed ?

Hello,
I use latest version of Flexicontent and Joomla 3.6.5.

I have to delete many items on backend because of restructuration of my content.

But the time it takes to delete multiple items is very very very long.
Even for one item only.

And during the process, I often have a 404 error inside my backend, as an article in editing form (I create a personalized 404 page).
And if it's not a 404 error, I have a SQL error about finder_tokens table or others, inside Joomla backend (I don't remember whoses).

Is there a way to correct this problem and increase delete items speed ?

Thank for your answer.

Regards.

Hello

We clean up item data and our search index
but most delay is most probably due Joomla event:

onContentBeforeDelete

Explanation:
when you try to (permanetly) delete multiple items
then they are deleted via a loop 1 at a time
and for each of them the Joomla plugin event:

onContentBeforeDelete
is called

the above can be heavy, e.g. in your case it tries to update Joomla Smart search Index too
If you do not use Joomla smart search index then you can disable
the Joomla finder plugin and the Content finder plugin

and see if there is a difference

I can make an optimization for checking permissions that would save e.g. 1 second when delete 100 items
About deleting all flexicontent data at the end ... i am not sure since if process is interrupted then we would have some orphan data

Thank ggppdk for your answer and explanations.
I'll try to disable smart search and see if the speed increase or not.
But for now, I have no more item to delete :silly: