How to use all of floppy disc space

[Guest]

I have been saving text docs. to floppy instead of printing them out. My question i, why can't I seem to be able to fill up the entire disc. I am only able to use about half of it and then get a window saying that the directory is full. Can I save only so many items regardless of their size? Would it help if I put them into folders? Thanks for any help.....Sean

 

[Kevin]

Yes, there is a limitation with regard to the number of files on a disk.

I have been saving text docs. to floppy instead of printing them out. My

question i, why can't I seem to be able to fill up the entire disc. I am
only able to use about half of it and then get a window saying that the
directory is full. Can I save only so many items regardless of their size?
Would it help if I put them into folders? Thanks for any help.....Sean

 

[joust in jest]

Yes and no -- there is a limit to the number of files you can put in the
ROOT [e.g. A:\ ) of a floppy disk.

The solution is simple: Create a folder (or several folders) on the floppy
and put your files in the folder. Now you only have one file (the
folder(s)) in the root of A:\

Hope this helps,
steve

I have been saving text docs. to floppy instead of printing them out. My

question i, why can't I seem to be able to fill up the entire disc. I am
only able to use about half of it and then get a window saying that the
directory is full. Can I save only so many items regardless of their size?
Would it help if I put them into folders? Thanks for any help.....Sean

 

[D.Currie]

Yes, there is a limitation with regard to the number of files on a disk.


question i, why can't I seem to be able to fill up the entire disc. I am
only able to use about half of it and then get a window saying that the
directory is full. Can I save only so many items regardless of their size?
Would it help if I put them into folders? Thanks for any help.....Sean

Keep in mind that floppies are notoriously unstable, and the newer ones seem
more fragile than the older ones used to be. I hope these aren't the only
copies you have of these files if they're important to you.

 

[VManes]

Also keep in mind that if you store many small(er) files on the disk, there
will be a bit of unused (slack) space at the end of each file, where it
doesn't completely fill a disk sector. Thus, your total bytes stored will
never equal the capacity of the disk.
Val
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I have been saving text docs. to floppy instead of printing them out. My
question i, why can't I seem to be able to fill up the entire disc. I am
only able to use about half of it and then get a window saying that the
directory is full. Can I save only so many items regardless of their size?
Would it help if I put them into folders? Thanks for any help.....Sean

 

[E Vernon [MSFT]]

Is this with any floppy or just a single floppy. If it is a single floppy,
throw it out and get a new one. This will happen to floppies over time and
is also dependent on how they are stored.

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Eric

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I have been saving text docs. to floppy instead of printing them out. My

question i, why can't I seem to be able to fill up the entire disc. I am
only able to use about half of it and then get a window saying that the
directory is full. Can I save only so many items regardless of their size?
Would it help if I put them into folders? Thanks for any help.....Sean