>>Hello there,
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>>I am creating a Win 3.x application and therefore I need to know if there is a restriction for the number of file in a directory?
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>>Thanks in advance
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>>Ralf Zimmer
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>I believe its 512 files max on the root directory ie "C:\" otherwise no limit except for available disk space.

That's generally correct; the maxiumum number of files in the root actually varies according to the cluster size, but the idea is 100% right - the root of a FAT partition's drive has a fixed upper limit, while subdirectories can have an unlimited number of entries.

There are consequences to having a very large number of files in a single directory; the time to open a file increases dramatically as the number of entries in the directory increases.

Ed