>Ed,
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>>>>The directory that crashed it contained 13,083 files. A microsoft office subdirectory full of wmf and bmp files....
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>I don't think I'd ever live with the other performance issues caused by having 13,083 files in a single folder! Can you say Subfolders? *g*

I'd only put up with it on a NetWare volume; NetWare's hashing and caching of the directory indexes really helps file open/close performance on overpopulated directory structures. OTOH, I'd never be able to figure out which file I wanted, so if I ran into this, I'd likely go postal and hunt down the perpetrator. Isn't severe overpopulation of a directory grounds for termination with extreme prejudice? < g >