Any known problems with large folders?

[CWatters]

I have a folder that contains about 1.9 GBytes of photos and CAD drawings.
If I explore this folder it IE frequently crashes with the following log
entry.

Any known problems with large folders?


Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 12/11/2003
Time: 15:33:17
User: N/A
Computer: NAME
Description:
Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2800.1221, faulting module
shell32.dll, version 6.0.2800.1233, fault address 0x000c745f.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 6c707041 74616369 206e6f69 6c696146
0010: 20657275 70786520 65726f6c 78652e72
0020: 2e362065 38322e30 312e3030 20313232
0030: 73206e69 6c6c6568 642e3233 36206c6c
0040: 322e302e 2e303038 33333231 20746120
0050: 7366666f 30207465 37633030 0d663534
0060: 0a

 

[CWatters]

It turned out to be a problem with the shortcut to the folder I crested on
the desktop. It worked for a while then one of the updates made it start to
crash explorer. Deleting and re-creating the shortcut fixed it.

If you want to know more send email.

 

[Sharon F]

It turned out to be a problem with the shortcut to the folder I crested on
the desktop. It worked for a while then one of the updates made it start to
crash explorer. Deleting and re-creating the shortcut fixed it.

If you want to know more send email.

A banged out shortcut? Glad to hear you got it fixed and it was an easy
matter. Guess this is a good reminder that it pays to check out the simpler
things first. Thanks for the followup.

 

[CWatters]

Someone else had the same problem so here are some more details:

I had this shortcut on te desktop for some time, then after several windows
updates I noticed that it was crashing Explorer.
The "problem" short cut on the desktop didn't have an arrow on it and if you
did a mouse over it said it pointed to: \\<computer_name>\SharedDocs.
Browsing via this shortcut on the local machine causes Explorer to crash.

The new short cut that seems to fix the problem has an arrow on it and doing
a mouse over says "Shortcut to Shared Documents Location: My Computer".

What _didn't_ work....

Replacing shell32.dll with another copy of the same version.
Running chkdsk /r
Running qfecheck
Running SFC /SCANONCE
Copying SharedDocs to CD and back again (eg restoring a backup)

Colin