maximum number of files in an XP directory

[rowan]

I' getting the following error:

"Cannot move filename: The directory or file cannot be
created".

when trying to copy files into a subdir that has 21,844
files in it.

Any ideas?

 

[Bryan O'Malley]

What is the name of the file that you're trying to copy? Does it have any
forward or backward slashes in it? ('/' or '\')?

Bryan

 

[Guest]

the file names are 16 chars.LCB with no forward or
backward slashes or dashes or underscores ('/' '\').

Ihave also deleted 5 files from the subdirectory and can
still only copy 5 files into the sudir. The limit appears
to be the # of files (21,844)

 

[cimex]

Apparently, your suspicions are correct.
This is translated (via Google Translation) from a German website:

"under FAT 32 provided partition with 4-kB-Clusters permits "only" max.
21844 files per path"

Source: http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~naeser/oe.htm

 

[Alex Nichol]

the file names are 16 chars.LCB with no forward or
backward slashes or dashes or underscores ('/' '\').

Then each file will be taking two directory entries in addition to the
base one, in order to hold the long name at 13 characters per entry.
Multiplying your 21K existing files by three, and adding a few for some
names over 26 characters, it seems likely that you are hitting the limit
for the number of entries in an individual directory. Move a few files
out and make some subfolders

 

[Alexander Grigoriev]

Use NTFS.