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: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:21:38 -0700
On Monday, July 23, 2001, at 11:13 AM, email@hidden wrote:
Does anyone know the maximum number of files allowed in one folder in OS
9.x?
It depends on the disk format. HFS Extended, aka HFS+, which is the
default for hard disks in Mac OS 9, doesn't have any real restriction.
(You're probably limited to four billion files on a single disk.) Plain
HFS won't let you have more than 65,000 files on a disk, so it's
certainly less than that, but I don't know exactly.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering