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How many files can you put in a Windows folder without a noticable performance degradation?
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I'm guessing there's no hard limit, but I know that performance degrades when you put too many files into a single Windows folder. Does anybody have any good rules of thumb for when it becomes noticeably slow to open a file?
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Assuming NTFS here, in which case the technical limit is around 4 billion files. And until you go over 10s of thousands per directory you really should not worry too much. Note however that programs like Explorer suffer much sooner than 10s of thous…
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