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I already offered a solution to empty a SharePoint list at light speed

But this solution hast two big disadvantages:

1. You cannot empty a list that has more entries thatn the allowed list view threshold (default is 5000)
2. All Lookups will be lost

This solution has non of those drawbacks. I...

SharePoint is damn slow when deleting lines from lists. Each entry can take up to some seconds which isn’t nice when you have to delete thousands of lines.

Also no Trunc-Methode is available.

Other solutions found on the net creating xml-files to bulk delete aren’t very fast either.

That’s why...