How many files can you have in Windows XP ?

[Guest]

What is the maximum number of directories in Windows XP ?
Is there a limit to the number of files you can have ?

 

[LS \(V\)]

The number of files is limited only by the Hard Disk size.
Your sub-directories may be limited, but it would be too high a number to
even worry about!

 

[Guest]

-As Carl Sagan once said, "billions n billions"

 

[Wesley Vogel]

NTFS Size Limits
Files per volume = 4,294,967,295 (2^32 minus 1 file)

FAT32 Size Limits
Files per volume Files per volume = 4,177,920
Maximum number of files and subfolders within a single folder = 65,534 (The
use of long file names can significantly reduce the number of available
files and subfolders within a folder.)

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Wes
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[Ken Blake, MVP]

The number of files is limited only by the Hard Disk size.

However there is a limit on a FAT32 volume of 64K *entries* per folder. Note
that I say "entries," not "files and folders" because files and folder with
long file names take multiple entries.


With NTFS the limit is *much* larger--large enough that for all intents and
purposes there is no limit.