# Installing docs is slow on Windows

**URL:** <https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/installing-docs-is-slow-on-windows/8917>\
**Category:** tools and infrastructure\
**Created:** [November 28, 2018, 11:51am UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/installing-docs-is-slow-on-windows/8917 "2018-11-28T11:51:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/installing-docs-is-slow-on-windows/8917/8 "2018-11-28T20:40:46Z")

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> [@Announcing Rust 2018 Beta release!](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-rust-2018-beta-release/8901/15):
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> IIRC part of the problem is NTFS having trouble with many (but small) files and rustdoc creating a lot of them.

As it so happens, I was working on getting some numbers for this, and installing the `rust-docs` component for 1.30.1 copies **15,426** files.

So uh, yeah.

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