Re: Re: too many files in one folder?
- From: Jerold Schulman <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:50:15 -0500
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:53:30 -0600, "R. C. White" <rc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Hi, css.
>
>The limits depend on FILE system (NTFS or FAT), rather than on operating
>system (Win2K or Win9x), which you didn't mention.
>
>There may be practical limitations on the number of files that can be
>comfortably used in an NTFS folder, but theoretically, you are nowhere near
>the limit. See this page in the Win2K Resource Kit:
>File Systems
>http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/w2rkbook/default.asp
>
>Sometimes those URLs don't land on exactly the page I had in mind in the
>online version of the RK. If not, find the top of the RK in TechNet and
>follow this path: Windows 2000 Resource Kits > Windows 2000 Professional
>Resource Kit > System Configuration and Management > File Systems > File
>System Comparisons
>
>Table 17.5 there says that an NTFS folder can have 2^32 - 1 files; I think
>that's over 4 billion files.
>
>For FAT, the limits are much smaller.
>
>RC
Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
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