Re: Maximum number of files in a folder
Re: Maximum number of files in a folder
- Subject: Re: Maximum number of files in a folder
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:52:19 -0700
At 18:21 -0700 7/25/2001, Christopher Nebel wrote:
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On Monday, July 23, 2001, at 11:13 AM, email@hidden wrote:
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> Does anyone know the maximum number of files allowed in one folder in OS
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> 9.x?
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It depends on the disk format. HFS Extended, aka HFS+, which is the
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default for hard disks in Mac OS 9, doesn't have any real restriction.
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(You're probably limited to four billion files on a single disk.) Plain
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HFS won't let you have more than 65,000 files on a disk, so it's
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certainly less than that, but I don't know exactly.
On the other hand, if one is going to ask Finder to show one a window on a
particular directory, roughly a few hundred is all one will be able to
stand. That might well differ in Mac OS X...indeed, the 343 files in
/Developer/Headers/FlatCarbon don't seem to bother Mac OS X 10.0.4's Finder
at all...in any of the three display forms. [Dual 533]
I don't know how the Mac OS X Finder with lots of items in a folder holds
up in doing what scripting it is supposed to be able to do (Mac OS X 10.1
will allow me to stop saying things like that, I hope). I haven't had
occasion to mess with Finder scripting in Mac OS X.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA