Maximum files in a folder?

[reynolds]

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.

 

[SupremeSpod]

Are you running NTFS or FAT32?

65,535 per folder on FAT32

millions on NTFS

 

[AtW]

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.

 

[SupremeSpod]

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

Spod.

 

[AtW]

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.

 

[SupremeSpod]

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.

 

[AtW]

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.

 

[SupremeSpod]

But not as much you dense twat!

 

[AtW]

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?

 

[fiddleabout]

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