Directories / Folders

[aam1234]

Is there a harm in creating many directories in the HD. Heard that there is no problem with sub-directories but one should be a bit conservative with creating main directories/folders.

What do the experts here think.

Cheers.

[jfrancho]

I can't see any problem with it, unless you're running indexing for search. I turn indexing off on my computers.

[aam1234]

Hope you are right John. Being into digital photography makes one create lots of dir./folders.

[jfrancho]

The main thing I do is to keep my personal data off the system drive (C: drive). Otherwise I don't worry about it - I have backups and archives.

[Rense]

Aam1234,
I keep al my photos organized in a structure like:
d:\photos\original\0611109
d:\photos\original\0611110
in that way I can copy them all in one click to another location and is everything sorted according to date.
Also you don't hit the limited number of directories in a root dir (at least that used to be the case in the old DOS age)

[aam1234]

Originally Posted by Rense

(at least that used to be the case in the old DOS age)

DOS? He he, I love our Dutch friends. That's a compliment by the way

[Rense]

yes, we oldies have come all the way

[aam1234]

I remember that too. I started with C:/copy/pic.* (or something like that)

Remember those

Edit: I think it's:
C:\copy\pic.*

[Rense]

aam1234,
Regarding \ or / (looks like grep by the way):
It was an exam question when I wanted to become a network specialist.

[metalstorm]

There is a limit to how many files and folders you can store on the root.* I can't remember now many off hand.* I'll do somre research and see what I can find.

Definitely an issue with fat16.* Probably not so much with NTFS and fat32.

As a general rule you shoud not load up your root with files since it is treated differently than your subs.

[aam1234]

Thanks MS. Do you mean by root the directory "photos" in Rense's example (d:\photos).

[metalstorm]

Originally Posted by aam1234

Thanks MS. Do you mean by root the directory "photos" in Rense's example (d:\photos).

By root, I mean "d:\".* you can put as many files and directories as you need within d:\photos.

[aam1234]

Thanks Richard. So it's ok to create many sub-directories under d:\photos. Is that correct.

Edit: Counted and have 10 directories under G:\ Is that OK and can I create more.

[Rense]

aam1234,
Richard is correct, in case your filesystem is formatted as FAT16 or FAT32. You can make as many subdirectories as you want below g:\photos in such a system.
I think the limit was 255 directories below g:\ for FAt16/FAT32.
If your filesystem is formatted as NTFS, none of the restrictions apply.

[metalstorm]

Here are a couple of good articles.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/120138 <-description of FAT16
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/154997/EN-US/* <-description of FAT32

It looks like the practical limitations was limited to FAT16 and FAT12.* And looks like my root habits are a hold over from the FAT16 days. *

Still I don't like to see a messy root on any type of file system in general.

[aam1234]

Thank you Rense and Richard for the info.