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From: time@tbomb.ice.com (Tim Endres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The Beauty of HFS
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Date: 1 Feb 91 23:01:54 GMT
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OK, well, since I stirred such a debate I took time to go back and
investigate what had happened. Sure enough, creating a directory with
thousands of files will kill Finder. Using software like DiskTop or
using SFGetFile(), the directory was handled OK. As for the software
that croaked, there was a memory allocation that exhausted memory.

Thus, as many have stated, HFS appears to have no problem with a
large number of files in a directory.

tim.

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