IIRC Windows will only choke if you try to put 65k files in the ROOT directory. Any other directory should be able to handle more. Whether or not one (Al) should put 65k files in one directory is a different matter... ;-)
Cheers, C. -----Original Message----- From: Myles Penlington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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... -----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/
