Folder Size Limit

[Andrew Bonney \(abweb\)]

Hi,
Does anyone know a way in Windows xp to limit the size of a folder so that
the contents of the folder and its subfolders cannot in total (folder
contents size + subfolder contents size) exceed a specified size?
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[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Hi,
Does anyone know a way in Windows xp to limit the size of a folder so
that the contents of the folder and its subfolders cannot in total
(folder contents size + subfolder contents size) exceed a specified
size?

65536 (or is it 65535) files.
Each file is limited to 2 GB, I believe.

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[Andrew Bonney \(abweb\)]

no, sorry. I mean can i manually set the maximum size for a folder?

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[Steve N.]

65536 (or is it 65535) files.
Each file is limited to 2 GB, I believe.

Huh?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;100108

"NTFS has greatly increased the size of files and volumes, so that they
can now be up to 2^64 bytes (16 exabytes or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616
bytes)."

Steve

 

[Andrew Bonney \(abweb\)]

AAARGH! I only want to know if it's possible to restrict folder sizes, I
don't need to know how much they can hold! Sorry for sounding angry but i've
been stuck inside all day ill.

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[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Hi,
Does anyone know a way in Windows xp to limit the size of a folder so that
the contents of the folder and its subfolders cannot in total (folder
contents size + subfolder contents size) exceed a specified size?

Hi

There is no builtin functionality for this.

But there is 3rd party software available that can do this, I did
a quick Google search and found e.g. this one:

http://www.competent-software.com/english/software/checkquota/checkquota.html

 

[NobodyMan]

Hi,
Does anyone know a way in Windows xp to limit the size of a folder so that
the contents of the folder and its subfolders cannot in total (folder
contents size + subfolder contents size) exceed a specified size?

You are talking about Disk Quotas. You can't do this using XP, but
can if you are mapping drives out from a Server. The Administrator on
the Server can set the amount of Server drive space you can use.

That's the best you are going to get using Microsoft Tools.

 

[Alex Nichol]

AAARGH! I only want to know if it's possible to restrict folder sizes, I
don't need to know how much they can hold!

The only way that occurs to me is to assign ownership of that folder to
a particular account, and then use quota management to restrict space
available to the account