30 seconds to change the attributes of a file

[Guest Wowbagger]

Server 2003: In a directory completely devoid of all files except for the

hidden thumbs.db (ranging in size from 8Mb to 40Mb), while working on the

local machine the command

 

attrib -s -h *.db

 

Takes 20-30 seconds to execute.

 

Why would this be taking so long? No errors in the event log directly

related to this, and the various disk health scans I have run always report

no errors.