>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.
Even
saving files might be slower (I don't know for sure) if you have that many files in a folder.
Anyway, perhaps somebody else can give you the answer to your original question. I don't know.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
