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    File Number Limits on NT 4.0??

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    by rountree ·

    Is there a way to calculate the maximum numbers of files per directory when using long filenames and an NTFS NT 4.0 volume? I am running into what APPEARS to be a limit when collecting large numbers of imaging files to a directory for distilling down to 650MB groups for making CD’s. I don’t think I have ever seen an actual formula (or even a reliable rule of thumb). Any ideas?

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    • #3902173

      File Number Limits on NT 4.0??

      by kellyst ·

      In reply to File Number Limits on NT 4.0??

      Its not a true limitation of NTFS on files…its somewhere in the range of 17 trillion files, but its how much it the MFT taking up(Master File Table) on a harddrive with thousands or millions of files the MFT can be enormous. When the CD is writtenit uses a TOC method cataloging the files, whuch uses less space

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      File Number Limits on NT 4.0??

      by cedric king ·

      In reply to File Number Limits on NT 4.0??

      I would agree with answer 1.

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      File Number Limits on NT 4.0??

      by rountree ·

      In reply to File Number Limits on NT 4.0??

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