>>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.
Hilmar,
Thanks for the response. I have these files stored in a directory for
archive/backup purpose. The chance to retrieve them is very dim.
20000 files is not such a big number in a high voulme of transaction
environment. I have 2 or 3 times more files stored in a directory on a
NT4 machine, that did not give me problem though.

Kam.