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goBigtime · 03-21-2005, 05:48 PM

If you have to ask that question, then you should probably rework your application to use subdirs. Dealing with directories with that many files can waste a lot of resources.

The easiest way might be to create folders named 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z and rewrite your script to seek/store the files in that manner.

But it really depends on your application and file naming scheme.

03-21-2005, 05:48 PM
goBigtime Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 7,761	If you have to ask that question, then you should probably rework your application to use subdirs. Dealing with directories with that many files can waste a lot of resources. The easiest way might be to create folders named 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z and rewrite your script to seek/store the files in that manner. But it really depends on your application and file naming scheme.