> directory. I didn't think the site would grow so fast, and I have
> been allowing users to upload all of the images to one folder. I am
> now at about 6000 images and am woried about performance issues both
> with CFCONTENT and Win2k.
I would recommend that you reorganize your files using some easily
understood directory scheme. For example, you might create year and month
directories.
> What is the maximum number of files allowable in a Win2k directory?
> 10,000?
To the best of my knowledge, there's no specific limit on a single
directory. There is a limit on how many files can be within a single volume.
For Windows Server 2003, that's 4,294,967,295 files. I'm pretty sure that's
the same in Windows 2000 - I don't think NTFS has changed between versions.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/deploy
guide/en-us/Default.asp?url=""> ployguide/en-us/sdccc_fsv_duel.asp
However, you will find that lots of operations get slower when you have lots
of files within a single directory. I ran into performance problems on my
laptop with 50,000 files in a directory. Some operations were still quite
fast - locating a specific file by name within a program using CFINCLUDE,
for example - while anything involving the Windows GUI was intolerably slow.
Browsing the directory via the command line was also pretty slow.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
phone: 202-797-5496
fax: 202-797-5444
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