Re: max number files in folder

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Bill,
I was pretty sure there was a limit of 512 entries for the ROOT on FAT
volumes*, was my initial point when I joined this thread. However, I didn't
know for sure whether this was he same for NTFS volumes, but I have been
told it is just FAT.

*unless the 'bit' specifying the limit is changed in a direct disk editor
to alter this 512 default value.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)


"Bill Blanton" <bblanton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It's actually an even 65536 if you count the .<dot> and ..<dotdot>
entries in subdirectories. The root has no . or .. but may have the volume
name entry.

Except for the special case root for FAT12 and 16, there's nothing
inherent of a FAT(n) directory structure that limits the number of
entries,
however DOS (at least) can't handle one with more than 65536.



"John John - MVP" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Not for FAT32 or NTFS. Also, the FAT limit of 512 objects is for the
root folder only, otherwise FAT16 volumes are limited to 65,536 clusters.
FAT32 folders can hold a maximum of 65,534 objects. on both FAT and
FAT32 Long File Names reduce the number of available entries. On NTFS, it
doesn't matter, an NTFS volume can hold more than 4.2 billion objects and
you can stuff them in folders as you please, the number of objects is not
affected by LFNs.

John

Tim Meddick wrote:
Does not the number of file entries in the ROOT "folder" of a drive
[partition] differ from that of sub-directories?





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