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RE: MacOS: Making 6,000 barcodes
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RE: MacOS: Making 6,000 barcodes


  • Subject: RE: MacOS: Making 6,000 barcodes
  • From: "Wadson, David" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:48:16 -0400

I've had an ASIP server start behaving very funny when it got 14,000 files
in a folder. Or it may have been Extensis Portfolio trying to create image
previews into the folder but I trimmed it down to about 6,000 files and the
server stopped crashing...

Dave

> ----------
> From: Christopher Nebel
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 4:29 PM
> To: AppleScript Users
> Subject: Re: MacOS: Making 6,000 barcodes
>
> On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 12:53 PM, Rice, Gary wrote:
>
> > Actually, the limit is ~65,000 files per volume but they could all be
> > in one
> > folder. However, the Finder would choke on the folder if you were
> > actually
> > able to put that many files in it. Literally, opening the folder would
> > take
> > hours.
>
> 65,000 files per volume is/was a limitation of the HFS (aka "Mac OS")
> disk format. HFS Plus (aka "Mac OS Extended") has no such limit.
> (Well, actually it does, but it's on the order of billions of files.
> Odds are you'll run out of disk space first.)
>
>
> --Chris Nebel
> AppleScript Engineering
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