Back in the FAT 12/16 days the root directory was created during the format and my recollection is 512 entries. When this was used up the drive reported full even if space was available on the drive. Sub-directories are actually a special kind of file and more space can be allocated to them if they need to grow. They can grow until the actual space in the drive is used up.
I don't know if later operating systems and FAT 32 have changed the size of the root.
>I have an application that creates and updates tables in a directory with 4000+ files. About 1500 of the files are free tables. This is on a W2K server. Some of the file are 18+MB large.
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>Does anyone know if there is a maximum number of files, or maximum directory size? I know I'm not approaching the max size of an individual file.
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>TIA,
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>Tom
Regards,
Mike
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