>Thanks for quick reply Hilmar.
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>you said
>>>But in general, it is recommended NOT to have so many files in a single directory. Find a way to split it into separate directory, perhaps by date or by the first letter of the filename.
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>Yes,we are already doing that .we create another folder called Inactive and move older files there. but even this getting bigger and bigger.
>probably users have to live with it.
If you have 100,000 files, you don't need to split it in 2, but in 10 or 100 pieces, to get folders of reasonable size. What kind of information do the files have? Is there a possibility of splitting by filename? E.g., by first letter of filename.
Do you already use NTFS, or do you have an older filesystem? Or an entirely different filesystem, like a Linux server?
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