Re: file limit?

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There is but for all intents and purposes it's hardly relevant with NTFS file system. You can stick over 4 billion files on an NTFS volume and you can stuff them all in the same folder if you want, I doubt you will have any issues with that. The problem is more prevalent on FAT32 file systems as the maximum number of files that can be stored on a volume is a bit more than 4 million files and, more importantly, the maximum number of files that can be stored in a folder is 65,534. Using long filenames can substantially reduce that amount and I have seen FAT32 folders conk out at about 25,000 files when long filenames are used.

John

Kim wrote:

I just ran into a problem with outlook.
I was unable to save anything to the disk.
attachments, then I could not write tot he drive in any way.

discovered 32,000 0 byte files in the suers temp directory - once I deleted
them - all was well.

Someone in the office mentioned a file limitation. I had never heard of
this - and was just wondering if there is such a thing.



"DL" <dl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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well yes, but maybe you have a specific reason for your Q?

"Kim" <kim@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Is there a limit to how many files can be written to a drive?












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