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