To many folders?

See... Table 13.5 NTFS Size Limits
here...
Size Limitations in NTFS and FAT File Systems
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit...-us/Def

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In news:%23zd2FmpJGHA.1832@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl,
Knut Olsen-Solberg <knut.RemoveThis@iet.hist.no> hunted and pecked:
> How many folders can you have i Windows XP? I just read in a computer
> magazine that the upper limit was 8000 (maybe 8000 local and 8000 network
> folders). This was an article about loosing information about
> customization of folders. (The following article is about the same:
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813711 )
> If the magazine is right about maximum 8000, I already am over the limit!
> What is the consequences?
>
> Regards Knut

Knut Olsen-Solberg wrote:

> How many folders can you have i Windows XP?


There is no limit on the total number of folders.

However there is a limit on a FAT32 volume of 64K *entries* per folder. Note
that I say "entries," not "files and folders" because files and folder with
long file names take multiple entries.

With NTFS the limit is *much* larger--large enough that for all intents and
purposes there is no limit.


> I just read in a computer
> magazine that the upper limit was 8000 (maybe 8000 local and 8000
> network folders). This was an article about loosing information about
> customization of folders. (The following article is about the same:
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813711 ) If the magazine is right
> about maximum 8000, I already am over the
> limit! What is the consequences?


No, you've misread these articles. The issue here is not with how many
folders you can have, but with how many folders Windows can remember Windows
Explorer customization settings for.

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Wes

Did you mean to post this link rather than the one you posted?
http://snipurl.com/7vtw

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"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955.TakeThisOut@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:efQ7U$pJGHA.532@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> See... Table 13.5 NTFS Size Limits
> here...
> Size Limitations in NTFS and FAT File Systems
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit...-us/Def
>
> --
> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>
> Wes
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> In news:%23zd2FmpJGHA.1832@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl,
> Knut Olsen-Solberg <knut.TakeThisOut@iet.hist.no> hunted and pecked:
>> How many folders can you have i Windows XP? I just read in a computer
>> magazine that the upper limit was 8000 (maybe 8000 local and 8000 network
>> folders). This was an article about loosing information about
>> customization of folders. (The following article is about the same:
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813711 )
>> If the magazine is right about maximum 8000, I already am over the limit!
>> What is the consequences?
>>
>> Regards Knut
>

No, Gerry, this one.

See... Table 13.5 NTFS Size Limits
here...
Size Limitations in NTFS and FAT File Systems
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit...-us/prk

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In news:%23SPoSKqJGHA.2696@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl,
Gerry Cornell <gcjc.DeleteThis@tenretnitb.com> hunted and pecked:
> Wes
>
> Did you mean to post this link rather than the one you posted?
> http://snipurl.com/7vtw
>
> --
>
> Regards.
>
> Gerry
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>
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> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
> "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955.DeleteThis@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:efQ7U$pJGHA.532@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> See... Table 13.5 NTFS Size Limits
>> here...
>> Size Limitations in NTFS and FAT File Systems
>>
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit...-us/Def
>>
>> --
>> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>>
>> Wes
>> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>>
>> In news:%23zd2FmpJGHA.1832@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl,
>> Knut Olsen-Solberg <knut.DeleteThis@iet.hist.no> hunted and pecked:
>>> How many folders can you have i Windows XP? I just read in a computer
>>> magazine that the upper limit was 8000 (maybe 8000 local and 8000
>>> network folders). This was an article about loosing information about
>>> customization of folders. (The following article is about the same:
>>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813711 )
>>> If the magazine is right about maximum 8000, I already am over the
>>> limit! What is the consequences?
>>>
>>> Regards Knut

Shhenan

What was this link intended to give?
http://snipurl.com/7xlv

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"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:uREQLtpJGHA.2704@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Knut Olsen-Solberg wrote:
>> How many folders can you have i Windows XP? I just read in a
>> computer magazine that the upper limit was 8000 (maybe 8000 local
>> and 8000 network folders). This was an article about loosing
>> information about customization of folders. (The following article
>> is about the same: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813711 ) If the
>> magazine is right about maximum 8000, I already am over the
>> limit! What is the consequences?
>
> See this:
> http://snipurl.com/7xlv
>
> If this is true for FAT32:
> Maximum number of files and subfolders within a single folder:
>
> 65,534 (The use of long file names can significantly reduce the number of
> available files and subfolders within a folder.)
>
> And NTFS doesn't even list such a limitation in the same article...
> Then this 8000 folders limit thing you present is a bunch of malarky.
>
> By the way - the article you gave is for "remembering settings of a view
> for a folder and setting how many of these to remember" not "how many
> folders you can have".
>
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>

Wes

I cannot see the difference save that I used Snurl to avoid the risk
of a broken url.

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"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955.DeleteThis@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:%23o7WIPqJGHA.344@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> No, Gerry, this one.
>
> See... Table 13.5 NTFS Size Limits
> here...
> Size Limitations in NTFS and FAT File Systems
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit...-us/prk
>
> --
> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>
> Wes
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>
>

I do not use snipurl or any url shorteners anymore, Gerry. I wanna see what
the link is, or what it's supposed to be.

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In news:OyvOJFrJGHA.2708@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
Gerry Cornell <gcjc RemoveThis @tenretnitb.com> hunted and pecked:
> Wes
>
> I cannot see the difference save that I used Snurl to avoid the risk
> of a broken url.
>
> --
>
> Regards.
>
> Gerry
> ~~~~
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>
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> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
> "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955 RemoveThis @comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:%23o7WIPqJGHA.344@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> No, Gerry, this one.
>>
>> See... Table 13.5 NTFS Size Limits
>> here...
>> Size Limitations in NTFS and FAT File Systems
>>
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit...-us/prk
>>
>> --
>> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>>
>> Wes
>> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

Wes

So would I slip you a Mickey Finn?

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"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955 DeleteThis @comcast.net> wrote in message
news:e8y4xlrJGHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>I do not use snipurl or any url shorteners anymore, Gerry. I wanna see
>what
> the link is, or what it's supposed to be.
>
> --
> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>
> Wes
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>

LOL Ah, Mr. Michael Finn.

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In news:ekrBDwrJGHA.3728@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
Gerry Cornell <gcjc RemoveThis @tenretnitb.com> hunted and pecked:
> Wes
>
> So would I slip you a Mickey Finn?
>
> --
>
> Regards.
>
> Gerry
> ~~~~
> FCA
> Stourport, England
>
> Enquire, plan and execute
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
> "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955 RemoveThis @comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:e8y4xlrJGHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> I do not use snipurl or any url shorteners anymore, Gerry. I wanna see
>> what
>> the link is, or what it's supposed to be.
>>
>> --
>> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>>
>> Wes
>> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:13:48 -0000, Gerry Cornell wrote:

> Wes
>
> So would I slip you a Mickey Finn?

No offense, Gerry, but there's enough impersonation in the newsgroups that
I just make it a standing policy here to never click any shortened URLs. I
suppose that I could check headers for authenticity but that takes time - a
precious commodity that I would rather spend differently.

If an URL is gosh awful long, I post navigation directions to get to it: Go
to this site, click on this, then that and so on. I'd rather spend the time
it takes to write up those directions for something else too. However, I
don't like to click snipped urls, so I refuse to use them in writing my
messages.

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I prefer

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics/tree/...wse_frm

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In news:%23VoDIhuJGHA.3444@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
Sharon F <sharonfDEL RemoveThis @ETEmvps.org> hunted and pecked:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:13:48 -0000, Gerry Cornell wrote:
>
>> Wes
>>
>> So would I slip you a Mickey Finn?
>
> No offense, Gerry, but there's enough impersonation in the newsgroups that
> I just make it a standing policy here to never click any shortened URLs. I
> suppose that I could check headers for authenticity but that takes time -
> a precious commodity that I would rather spend differently.
>
> If an URL is gosh awful long, I post navigation directions to get to it:
> Go to this site, click on this, then that and so on. I'd rather spend the
> time it takes to write up those directions for something else too.
> However, I don't like to click snipped urls, so I refuse to use them in
> writing my messages.
>
> --
> Sharon F
> MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

> Knut Olsen-Solberg wrote:
>
>
>>How many folders can you have i Windows XP?
>
>
> With NTFS the limit is *much* larger--large enough that for all intents and
> purposes there is no limit.
>
>
>
>>I just read in a computer
>>magazine that the upper limit was 8000 (maybe 8000 local and 8000
>>network folders). This was an article about loosing information about
>>customization of folders. (The following article is about the same:
>>http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813711 ) If the magazine is right
>>about maximum 8000, I already am over the
>>limit! What is the consequences?
>
>
>
> No, you've misread these articles. The issue here is not with how many
> folders you can have, but with how many folders Windows can remember Windows
> Explorer customization settings for.


Thanks! (I have NTFS)
But it may be right then, that Windows Explorer cannot remember customization settings for more than 8000 folders?
(I did not misread the article, but this is probably what they meant to write.)

Regards Knut

Knut Olsen-Solberg wrote:
> I just read in a computer
> magazine that the upper limit was 8000 (maybe 8000 local and 8000
> network folders). This was an article about loosing information
> about customization of folders. (The following article is about
> the same: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813711 ) If the
> magazine is right about maximum 8000, I already am over the
> limit! What is the consequences?

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
> No, you've misread these articles. The issue here is not with how
> many folders you can have, but with how many folders Windows can
> remember Windows Explorer customization settings for.

Knut Olsen-Solberg wrote:
> Thanks! (I have NTFS)
> But it may be right then, that Windows Explorer cannot remember
> customization settings for more than 8000 folders? (I did not
> misread the article, but this is probably what they meant to
> write.)

I want to be quite honest and say that any OSes ability to remember more
than 8000 customization settings for FOLDERS in the file system - just does
not seem to be a bad thing. After all - for anyone to notice it cannot
remember more than 8000 customization settings for folders - well - they
either have to be REALLY intense in what they do or they really need to find
something else to obsess about. (IMHO)

*grin*

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