Re: Max # of files in a folder?
From: S_Nyaya (satyanyaya_at_orion.nebula)
Date: 02/25/05
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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:19:06 -0800
Hi,
Thanks for the pointers. I appreciate it a lot.
Regards.
Satyanyaya
"S_Nyaya" <satyanyaya@orion.nebula> wrote in message
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> 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
>
>
>
>
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