K
Kim
Is there a limit to how many files can be written to a drive?
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Kim
I just ran into a problem with outlook.
I was unable to save anything to the disk.
attachments, then I could not write tot he drive in any way.
discovered 32,000 0 byte files in the suers temp directory - once I deleted
them - all was well.
Someone in the office mentioned a file limitation. I had never heard of
this - and was just wondering if there is such a thing.
I was unable to save anything to the disk.
attachments, then I could not write tot he drive in any way.
discovered 32,000 0 byte files in the suers temp directory - once I deleted
them - all was well.
Someone in the office mentioned a file limitation. I had never heard of
this - and was just wondering if there is such a thing.
D
DL
well yes, but maybe you have a specific reason for your Q?
J
John John
There is but for all intents and purposes it's hardly relevant with NTFS
file system. You can stick over 4 billion files on an NTFS volume and
you can stuff them all in the same folder if you want, I doubt you will
have any issues with that. The problem is more prevalent on FAT32 file
systems as the maximum number of files that can be stored on a volume is
a bit more than 4 million files and, more importantly, the maximum
number of files that can be stored in a folder is 65,534. Using long
filenames can substantially reduce that amount and I have seen FAT32
folders conk out at about 25,000 files when long filenames are used.
John
file system. You can stick over 4 billion files on an NTFS volume and
you can stuff them all in the same folder if you want, I doubt you will
have any issues with that. The problem is more prevalent on FAT32 file
systems as the maximum number of files that can be stored on a volume is
a bit more than 4 million files and, more importantly, the maximum
number of files that can be stored in a folder is 65,534. Using long
filenames can substantially reduce that amount and I have seen FAT32
folders conk out at about 25,000 files when long filenames are used.
John
K
Kim
Thanks John,
that sounds like what happened.
the drive is fat32 and one folder had almost 32,000 files in it.
There was 18 gigs of free space - but I could not install anything or write
anything to the drive.
thanks for the help
that sounds like what happened.
the drive is fat32 and one folder had almost 32,000 files in it.
There was 18 gigs of free space - but I could not install anything or write
anything to the drive.
thanks for the help
J
John John
Yes, it's quite plausible that with FAT32 when using long filenames the
folder would have conked out at 32,000 files, makes perfect sense. It
should not however prevent you from writting files to other folders,
unless if the files were all stuffed in the root. Also, although that
is not an issue here, FAT32 has a maximum file size limit of just
slightly less than 4GB. Not an issue for most users but people who do
video editing for example often run in that problem. The largest file
size on NTFS is about 16 terabytes. You can see more information on
file systems here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/c13621675.mspx
John
folder would have conked out at 32,000 files, makes perfect sense. It
should not however prevent you from writting files to other folders,
unless if the files were all stuffed in the root. Also, although that
is not an issue here, FAT32 has a maximum file size limit of just
slightly less than 4GB. Not an issue for most users but people who do
video editing for example often run in that problem. The largest file
size on NTFS is about 16 terabytes. You can see more information on
file systems here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/c13621675.mspx
John