Maximum Folder Size?

[Captain Beer]

I'm having a few problems accessing files in My Documents, I was wondering if there was a size limit for the folder or something like that?

ATM:

34.5GB

18,525 files

Could this be causing any ***? It is all very well organized. Cheers.

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Well on a 512mb HDD you could run into some problems, but otherwise I don't think so, I've had more than that in my My Documents folder before without any problems.

 

[bekdik]

I'm having a few problems accessing files in My Documents, I was wondering if there was a size limit for the folder or something like that?

What are the problems. Where is my folders situated - on a network?

 

[Captain Beer]

It's all on c:, when I open the folder it just hangs, if I press Ctrl Alt Del it shows that explorer is using 99% of the CPU.

 

[Gambit]

are all the files in the root of the my documents folder or are they spread out over sub folders within the my documents folder?

 

[Claymore]

It's all on c:, when I open the folder it just hangs, if I press Ctrl Alt Del it shows that explorer is using 99% of the CPU.

You may find it's generating thumbnails, and is having problems reading a particular file.

 

[kronoSX]

folders can be any size,always depend on your drive thou

 

[lsuacner]

root@infant-finite:~# du -lhs /mnt/01/Media/
203G /mnt/01/Media/
root@infant-finite:~# uname -a
Linux infant-finite 2.6.20-15-lowlatency #2 SMP PREEMPT Sun Apr 15 06:20:10 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@infant-finite:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 7.04
Release: 7.04
Codename: feisty

 

[bekdik]

Run a disk repair. open mycomputer, rclick the c:\ icon, go properties, tools and choose disk check.

 

[XCalibre]

You may find it's generating thumbnails, and is having problems reading a particular file.

Yeh once you open my documents try changing the view quickly to list view or something other than Thumbnails. I think that will sort the problem

 

[lsuacner]

You could boot a Linux CD to access the disk, what I have done is share a windows folder on the network, then delete the Thumbs file as Linux displays it.

 

[SoTrue]

Toilet Duck, based on your computer's specs, I am surprised that anything works! I won't run/keep important stuff on that computer if I were you, you are bound to lose it all sometime soon. You are warned, hoping you keep backups!

 

[lsuacner]

lol yeh. would like to a machine like that, oldest running one I have is a p166 with 42mb ram, 4G disk. I was thinking of overclocking the hell out of it, and cooling it in mineral oil.

 

[BiteMe]

this is noprmally caused by a bad divx decoder, trying to generate a thimbnail for an avi file and hanging, taking explorer.exe with it.

uninstall your divx decoder, then go grab something decent, like ffdshow, and the problem will disappear.

trust me, i used to know a guy who knew a doctor

 

[Captain Beer]

Thanks for all the advice, I copied all the contents to a new folder and now it's working 100s.

My oldest machine is an AMD 386 DX 40 with 8MB RAM and has a 512 HDD with Windows 3.11and plenty old DOS games.The worst setup I ran was a 386 SX25, 4MB RAM and Windows 95!