Does anyone know if XP (formatted NTFS) imposes a maximum number of folders that can live inside a folder? Couldn't find that by STFW. I ran a process that created 68,415 folders (each containing 5 tiny text files) inside a folder, and now I'm not able to get properties or open that enclosing folder. I can see all the contents via the command line, but not via XP.
Can you cd to it from the command prompt? I suspect whatever limitation you are hitting is probably a limitation of Windows (the GUI) itself, not the file system.
look at this article: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp as far as i can tell, you're not limited to any particular number of objects/subfolders on NTFS, though FAT32 etc has object limitations. That article gives some suggestions for how to deal with your problem, though I personally haven't tried them out myself. EDIT: shawn is right - try the command prompt. i've had luck with it before as well, when trying to access particularly stubborn folders with lots of items in them.
Like I said, yes it's all there via the command prompt, just not via Windows. Thanks for the link, I'll check that out.
That's what I was just looking at too. It has a note about optimizing NTFS if you have a folder with more than 300,000 files in it, so I don't think whatever is going is a limitation of NTFS itself.