>Hi all,
>I am using a vfp to capture message from another machine and write
>each message with a distinct name into a WIN 2K folder as a file.
>I am getting an error when the folder has a total number of 21844 files.
>Is there a limit in WIN 2K folder entry limit? Or there is something I
>can do to increase the limit? I have the same program writing to a NT machine
>which does not give me any error like that..
>Any idea?

While I don't know about the file limit, I would suspect that performance would go down long before you reach 20,000 files. Perhaps you should divide the files in several subfolders, separating by date range, number, first letter(s) of the filename, or some such criterion.

Several systems that save information in files do this, for instance, Visual SourceSafe.

HTH, Hilmar.