diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index ea82887d6..3e759b7bd 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -118,9 +118,9 @@ Other changes:
 
  * Provide read access to Mkdir.dir.  Bugzilla Report 51684.
 
- * <delete> has a new attribute performGCOnFailedDelete that may -
-   when set to true - help resolve some problems with deleting empty
-   directories on NFS shares.
+ * <delete> and <move> have a new attribute performGCOnFailedDelete
+   that may - when set to true - help resolve some problems with
+   deleting empty directories on NFS shares.
    Bugzilla Report 45807.
 
 Changes from Ant 1.8.1 TO Ant 1.8.2
diff --git a/manual/Tasks/delete.html b/manual/Tasks/delete.html
index bd0378ffc..635b10f1d 100644
--- a/manual/Tasks/delete.html
+++ b/manual/Tasks/delete.html
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ in <strong>Directory-based Tasks</strong>, and see the
   <tr>
     <td valign="top">performGCOnFailedDelete</td>
     <td valign="top">
-      If ant fails to delete a file or directory it will retry the
+      If Ant fails to delete a file or directory it will retry the
       operation once.  If this flag is set to true it will perform a
       garbage collection before retrying the delete.<br/>
       Setting this flag to true is known to resolve some problems on
diff --git a/manual/Tasks/move.html b/manual/Tasks/move.html
index add618af5..c4f931ad9 100644
--- a/manual/Tasks/move.html
+++ b/manual/Tasks/move.html
@@ -168,6 +168,19 @@ there is a directory by the same name in <i>todir</i>, the action will fail.
     on separate machines with clocks being out of sync.  <em>since Ant
     1.6</em>.</td>
   </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td valign="top">performGCOnFailedDelete</td>
+    <td valign="top">
+      If Ant fails to delete a file or directory it will retry the
+      operation once.  If this flag is set to true it will perform a
+      garbage collection before retrying the delete.<br/>
+      Setting this flag to true is known to resolve some problems on
+      Windows (where it defaults to true) but also for directory trees
+      residing on an NFS share.
+      <em>Since Ant 1.8.3</em></td>
+    <td align="center" valign="top">No, default &quot;true&quot; on
+      Windows and &quot;true&quot; on any other OS.</td>
+  </tr>
 </table>
 <h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3>
 <h4>mapper</h4>
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Move.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Move.java
index 9b01c4093..99404b920 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Move.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Move.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import java.util.Iterator;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.Project;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.DirectoryScanner;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Os;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileSet;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FilterSet;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FilterSetCollection;
@@ -51,6 +52,8 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FilterSetCollection;
  */
 public class Move extends Copy {
 
+    private boolean performGc = Os.isFamily("windows");
+
     /**
      * Constructor of object.
      * This sets the forceOverwrite attribute of the Copy parent class
@@ -62,6 +65,19 @@ public class Move extends Copy {
         setOverwrite(true);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Whether to perform a garbage collection before retrying a failed delete.
+     *
+     * <p>This may be required on Windows (where it is set to true by
+     * default) but also on other operating systems, for example when
+     * deleting directories from an NFS share.</p>
+     *
+     * @since Ant 1.8.3
+     */
+    public void setPerformGcOnFailedDelete(boolean b) {
+        performGc = b;
+    }
+
     /** {@inheritDoc}. */
     protected void validateAttributes() throws BuildException {
         if (file != null && file.isDirectory()) {
@@ -204,7 +220,7 @@ public class Move extends Copy {
 
         if (!moved) {
             copyFile(fromFile, toFile, filtering, overwrite);
-            if (!fromFile.delete()) {
+            if (!getFileUtils().tryHardToDelete(fromFile, performGc)) {
                 throw new BuildException("Unable to delete " + "file "
                         + fromFile.getAbsolutePath());
             }
@@ -293,7 +309,8 @@ public class Move extends Copy {
             File f = new File(d, s);
             if (f.isDirectory()) {
                 deleteDir(f);
-            } else if (deleteFiles && !(f.delete())) {
+            } else if (deleteFiles && !getFileUtils().tryHardToDelete(f,
+                                                                      performGc)) {
                 throw new BuildException("Unable to delete file " + f.getAbsolutePath());
             } else {
                 throw new BuildException("UNEXPECTED ERROR - The file "
@@ -301,7 +318,7 @@ public class Move extends Copy {
             }
         }
         log("Deleting directory " + d.getAbsolutePath(), verbosity);
-        if (!d.delete()) {
+        if (!getFileUtils().tryHardToDelete(d, performGc)) {
             throw new BuildException("Unable to delete directory " + d.getAbsolutePath());
         }
     }
@@ -355,7 +372,8 @@ public class Move extends Copy {
                     + " is a no-op.", Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
                 return true;
             }
-            if (!(getFileUtils().areSame(sourceFile, destFile) || destFile.delete())) {
+            if (!(getFileUtils().areSame(sourceFile, destFile)
+                  || getFileUtils().tryHardToDelete(destFile, performGc))) {
                 throw new BuildException("Unable to remove existing file " + destFile);
             }
         }