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Brings back memories of the old DOS days, when there was quite a low limit on the number of files that you could store in the root directory. I can't remember
by cyberferret 10y ago
Brings back memories of the old DOS days, when there was quite a low limit on the number of files that you could store in the root directory. I can't remember the exact numbers, but it lead to my early habits of creating a new sub directory for every little thing so nowadays (over 3 decades later) nearly everything I need is at least 5 levels deep! ;)
NB: My current working folders are now in Google Drive, but is essentially the same folder structure as I started on our Novell server about 25 years ago...
- jaredsohn 10y ago> when there was quite a low limit on the number of files that you could store in the root directory. I can't remember the exact numbers 512? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Final_FAT16 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Final_FA... (see the last paragraph.)
- cyberferret 10y agoThat sounds about right. It was a ridiculously low number, and even back in the days of 10MB hard drives, it was easy to bust that number with just batch and text files...
- pjc50 10y ago.. aided by CHKDSK, which would find orphaned allocation units and create files for them in the root directory. Could quite easily fill up your root directory on its own.
- cyberferret 10y agoYES! That's right... all those FILEnnnn.CHK files exploding all over your root directory! Ah, those were the days!