Max files in one folder?

pyro

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pyro

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I don't know where to put this hard drives? OS? Anyway, I am getting a mybook tomorrow (hopefully) and I'm gonna clean up my drives of what I want and don't want. I am gonna put all my pictures in it, and since it's a few thousand of them, I was wondering if it's ok to put, say, 4k pictures in one folder and manage them with google's picasa.

Is that ok or will it cause problems to the disk/windows?
 
As far as I am aware there isn't a limit on the number of files in one folder but it will probably be slower and definitely a lot more messy than sub-dividing them into individual folders. I'd wait for someone who knows a bit more than me to confirm though. :)

This should probably be in OS I'd imagine.
 
Unless its a web folder which only allows upto 20000 files there isnt any maximum that im aware of however, the more you have the longer it takes to index them.

Someone else may know more information though so dont take it as gospel.

Alf
 
Also think the only limit is the amount of space... I would subdivide though, had to divide my files because Windows would want to check all their properties everytime I went in the folder :)
 
pyro said:
I don't know where to put this hard drives? OS? Anyway, I am getting a mybook tomorrow (hopefully) and I'm gonna clean up my drives of what I want and don't want. I am gonna put all my pictures in it, and since it's a few thousand of them, I was wondering if it's ok to put, say, 4k pictures in one folder and manage them with google's picasa.

Is that ok or will it cause problems to the disk/windows?
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right click on the folder you want to compress(ie my pictures :D )
click on send to
then click on compressed(zipped) folder
windows will compress that folder and put a zip icon on it and it will be the same name
 
gumbald said:
Also think the only limit is the amount of space... I would subdivide though, had to divide my files because Windows would want to check all their properties everytime I went in the folder :)
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stop windows from doing that,
in details mode, right click the bar that shows all the columns and untick the unwanted info
it will load the folder a lot quicker...only works in details mode though m8 :D
 
what relevance has your 'how to make a zip file' tutorial got to the question?

I wouldn't imagine it would cause too many problems except for maybe when you browse to that folder in windows explorer etc where you might experience a little slow-down.

I know personally it would drive me crazy to have them all so disorganised though - even if that was just in the background...

fini
 
fini said:
what relevance has your 'how to make a zip file' tutorial got to the question?

I wouldn't imagine it would cause too many problems except for maybe when you browse to that folder in windows explorer etc where you might experience a little slow-down.

I know personally it would drive me crazy to have them all so disorganised though - even if that was just in the background...

fini
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:D lol , my bad ,i did not read post correct....the words "clean up my hard drives" and "4K pictures in one folder" stuck in my mind...
sorry for trying to help :(
ps its causes no slowdown if you have a decent rig though m8 :D
 
NTFS doesn't place any limit. Windows Explorer however could become very slow.

I have a folder full of about 5000 icons (.ico) and it slows Explorer to a halt for about 15 seconds - although most of that delay is because Explorer has to load the preview image for the icon. For other file types which don't have a preview as their icon it will be much faster.

Vista fixes this however as Explorer is full multi-threaded and asynchronous in this OS.
 
if you have an AV program, then add that extention of file to the exception list.. will dramatically speed up usage of the files + folders!
 
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