On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Matt Slay <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any limit (OS or best practice) on the maximum number of files to > have in one single folder? > > I seem to recall that there was a limit, or at least a point at which it > could become problematic. > > I am running Windows Server 2003 as our primary file store on a 12-user LAN. > It has multiple folders, but one in particular has grown to about 8,000 > files. Each file is very small (1 - 5KB), but there are a lot of them. > > The files are stored on the server in a shared folder, that is hosted in a > DFS tree, and users access this DFS tree from a mapped letter on their XP > machines on the LAN. ------------------------------------------
Ran into that issue before 2048 is the magic # I believe. We were keeping uploaded files and we ran out of places in a folder to store them. So we created a GUID sequence for the folders <Root> <CustomerFiles> <FirstSequenceOfGUID> <SecondSequenceOfGUID> <ThirdSequenceOfGUID> Files here Guid was the order PKey. All files were in a GUID name just because we could! there would have been a compressed file, the .ps file and the .pdf we made from it. We were getting +600 orders a day and some might have 15 + files associated with it. Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer First Horizon Bank Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
