Re: Problem copying over 65,534 files to single NTFS folder

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Let's have a look at the batch file you ran!


"Nick Moore" <NickMoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've already created 70,000+ test files in the same way you suggested. But
just to accommodate you, I've created a new test folder, created the batch
file you suggested in it, ran the batch file, and it only created 1 file,
a.txt.




"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

Run the test batch file I suggested!


"Nick Moore" <NickMoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My drive is definately formated in NTFS. I have 333 GB's of 500 GB
available.
I agree that having that many files in one folder is not ideal, but
thats
how the dental x-ray images are stored in our practice management
software.
Any other suggestions?




"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:


"Nick Moore" <NickMoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm trying to copy over 70,000 files from from a single folder on
an
NTFS
partition on a 2003 server w/SP1 across a network to a portable
USB
hard
drive (formated in NTFS) on a WinXP SP2 PC. I know FAT32 can only
handle
65,534 files in any given folder, the strange thing is, I'm
getting
the
exact
same problem on an NTFS partition! Could it have anything to do
with
cluster
size or anything like that? So in short, I get and error trying to
create
more than 65,534 files in a single folder on an NTFS partition...
any
ideas?
Thanks in advance.

Nick nmoore2001@hotmail[deleteme}.com

I ran this little batch file on my NTFS partition and I had
no problem creating 70,000 files. You might want to run
it too. Perhaps your problem

@echo off
for /L %%a in (1,1,70000) do cd 2>%a.txt

Perhaps your NTFS partition is not an NTFS partition after
all, or you're running out of space. You should also ask
yourself if it is useful to have so many files in the one folder.
Performance deterirorates when you go substantially
beyond 5,000 files (which is in itself a very large number
of files).








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