Max # of files in a folder?

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There is a number......but can't quote it at the moment. Check with David
Candy.

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"S_Nyaya" <satyanyaya@orion.nebula> wrote in message
news:ebFBqxvGFHA.2936@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Is there a limit on how many files there can be within a folder (not
> including sub-folders)?
>
> Recently I was helped in recategorization and archiving data on one
> machine
> and some folders would really take an exceedingly long time to even open
> up
> and reveal their contents - some of these folders contained over 2500
> files
> (mostly Word documents, HTMLs and MHTMLs).
>
> Even selecting sequential multiple files would take minutes just for all
> the
> highlighting to appear! It seemed to take ages just to redistribute a
> great
> many files in new folders after a re-categorization.
>
> That PC is exceedingly fast otherwise and reverted back to shape after the
> archival operation was over. The job was done okay but it just had me
> wondering. I work with a great many files too often but these are archived
> on a regular basis so have not encountered this phenomenon before.
>
> Regards and thanks in advance for any illumination.
>
> Satyanyaya
>
>
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

Hi,

Thanks for the pointers. I appreciate it a lot.

Regards.

Satyanyaya


"S_Nyaya" <satyanyaya@orion.nebula> wrote in message
news:ebFBqxvGFHA.2936@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Is there a limit on how many files there can be within a folder (not
> including sub-folders)?
>
> Recently I was helped in recategorization and archiving data on one
> machine
> and some folders would really take an exceedingly long time to even open
> up
> and reveal their contents - some of these folders contained over 2500
> files
> (mostly Word documents, HTMLs and MHTMLs).
>
> Even selecting sequential multiple files would take minutes just for all
> the
> highlighting to appear! It seemed to take ages just to redistribute a
> great
> many files in new folders after a re-categorization.
>
> That PC is exceedingly fast otherwise and reverted back to shape after the
> archival operation was over. The job was done okay but it just had me
> wondering. I work with a great many files too often but these are archived
> on a regular basis so have not encountered this phenomenon before.
>
> Regards and thanks in advance for any illumination.
>
> Satyanyaya
>
>
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

Ken Blake wrote:
> FAT32 has a 64K limit on the number of entries. That's *entries*,
> not files and folders, because files and folders with long file
> names take multiple entries.

Out of curiousity: How many entries will a long file name take? Two? More,
depending on the length of the filename?

I actually stumbled across this limitation just the other week, and I
couldn't get more than 65534 files (all short filenames) in a folder.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

"André Gulliksen" <andre.gulliksen@start.no> wrote:

>Ken Blake wrote:
>> FAT32 has a 64K limit on the number of entries. That's *entries*,
>> not files and folders, because files and folders with long file
>> names take multiple entries.
>
>Out of curiosity: How many entries will a long file name take? Two? More,
>depending on the length of the filename?

From two to thirteen, depending on the length of the filename.

>I actually stumbled across this limitation just the other week, and I
>couldn't get more than 65534 files (all short filenames) in a folder.

Those files must all have had names fitting the DOS 8.3 spec. In that
case they take only a single directory entry.

BTW: An earlier post in this thread said that NTFS has no
files-per-folder limit. That's true, but there is a limit of
4,294,967,295 files per volume. See
http://www.microsoft.com/resources [...] l_tdrn.asp
for FAT32 and NTFS limits.

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