Number of folders limit?

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Is there a limit to the number of top level folders in a partition?
Any limits on the construction of folder/file hierarchies?
TIA
Brian Tozer

 

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In news:dfr4oq$gc7$1@lust.ihug.co.nz,
KiwiBrian <briantoz@ihug.co.nz> typed:

> Is there a limit to the number of top level folders in a
> partition?


Not directly. The limit is on entries in a folder. "Entries"
refers to the sum of both files and folders, and it is not simply
their sum, because files and folders with long file names use
multiple entries.

The limit, on FAT32 volumes is 64K entries. The NTFS limit is
*way* more than you could possibly get on a any drive these
days--for all practical purposes (at least in 2005), it's
unlimited.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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Yes there is, but it varies from operating system to operating system.
The article:-
www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp
gives the limitations fro NTFS, FAT32 and FAT16 from an XP point of view