Ah, Yes windows will choke with this number of files in a single directory. It is just not designed to handle it. Although I think most OS
You have probably doubled the number of MFT entries and they will have become fragmented. All the files on my machine all up number about 70,000 M -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 15 October 2003 09:18 To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic Subject: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: RE: [DUG]: >65535 WinXP O/S choking [from Delphi list] Is your disk getting fragmented? Especially when you're adding 65k small files at a time? Try Diskeeper or something, not the built-in defragger... HTH, Conor -----Original Message----- From: Alistair George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Hi all. this is a tad offtopic, but useful if someone knows the answer. I made up a wee unit yesterday as follows: procedure TMainform.ZIPmodeClick(Sender: TObject); var fp: file of Byte; no: longint; filename: string; begin for no := 1 to 65535 do begin filename := 'h:\Test' + inttostr(no) + '.txt'; assignfile(fp, filename); Rewrite(Fp); CloseFile(Fp); end; end; Once the above is completed (on a 1.2Ghz machine it is SLOW). Thereafter explorer is really choked/slow until I remove the files from whichever directory they have been placed in. Explorers refresh if I click in the directory for example can take 2-3 minutes just to show the files within. Any suggestions on how to overcome? They are all '0' size - could this be the problem or what? Thanks, Alistair+ Oh, BTW it was a test for the ability of a zip engine to zip 65535 files then zip64 > 65535 files. PPS just found that by turning off 'indexing service' helps a lot although the target directory refresh is just as slow. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/
