Maximum files in a folder?

G. Glitter

That's not the reason you are called fiddleabout is it?

Re: PC World

From my experience and some tests - performance deteriorate significantly starting from approx. 9000 files in the same folder.

Re: PC World

Is it why you not using them, Perl?

PC World

Gary Glitter found the service there excellent.

> For christ's sake don't take your machine to PC World for
> repairs.

come on admit to taking it there at least once - even a foreigner like me knew not to do it :lol

As a break from one of the normal AtW v "somebody who might actually know something" sessions may I suggest ...

For christ's sake don't take your machine to PC World for repairs.

G. Glitter

i was just thinking that you will call me that

lets agree on this - I was right in the first place, but I am still a twat?

But not as much you dense twat!

Maybe you cant read - I affirm that performance _does_ deteriorate significantly, ie much.

Thats with indexing disable, something I do among first things after fresh install, WinXP and Win2003 are all based on same NTFS, AFAIK this arae was not improved, however it will be big time in WinFS - they will finally stop needing to "table scan" all files in dir to find them, ie will use internal filename indexing as well as content indexing.

AtW, performance doesn't deteriorate too much if you disable the indexing!

Maybe you should learn to read...

Also, it was nearer two years ago.

Performance actually does deteriorate - a lot less on NTFS than on old FAT, just listing all files in dir takes ages - you'd think this simple operation will be fast but it aint, I had 3k+ small files in one dir at work on Win2K and it took bloody ages to list them (P4 2.4, 1Gb RAM) - I mean more than a well more than a few seconds!

Oh maybe you think I know £"%^£^% about "£%"£%? Perhaps you have forgotten one year old chat where you lost technical argument regarding branch prediction? To your credit you admitted defeat.

AtW, performance doesn't deteriorate too much if you disable the indexing!

Spod.

yeah and drastic performance drop after a few thousands...

if you think of storing that many files think again!!! Even IE creates multiple directories to avoid have too many cache files in the same dir.

Are you running NTFS or FAT32?

65,535 per folder on FAT32

millions on NTFS

Does anyone know if there's a cap on the number of files in a folder using Windows 2000? I get an error when dumping loads of images via a batch file in a folder saying "no space left on disk" or something. No, its not because there's no space on my HDD.