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From: blob@apple.com (Brian Bechtel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problems with file systems with more than 2000 Files
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Date: 10 Jul 89 18:32:59 GMT
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In article <605@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de> breu@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de 
(Michael Breu) writes:
> In the last issue of the german magazine MacUp there was a short
> notice, that the finder will run into problems, if there are more than
> 2000 files on one disk.  This is a problem with this new huge optical
> disks but also with conventional big disks.

They are wrong; something got lost in the translation.  There is a limit
to the number of different applications that you may have on one disk.
There is no limit on the number of files on one disk.

Information about each application is kept in an invisible file called the 
Desktop file.  The current method for maintaining this information uses 
the Resource Manager.  The Resource Manager can't have more than 2,727 
resources in one file.  See Tech Note 141 for details.

The Desktop problem will be fixed in System 7.0.  See Tech Note 210 for 
more details on the current implementation and its limitations.

I have 15,000 files on one hard disk in my office, with no problems.

--Brian Bechtel     blob@apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"