Just ran into this. I had the video app motion running for a few weeks and had accumuluated several million small jpegs and wasn't paying attention to the updat

Just ran into this. I had the video app motion running for a few weeks and had accumuluated several million small jpegs and wasn't paying attention to the updater which had stopped pushing images. Basically my webserver was timing out because of how I was searching for new files because there were too many files and I was using a bash script in a cron job that used ls. I found a workaround but it is cool to see this discussion. Kinda reminds me of MS Excel when it first started defaulting to 1048576 rows. You could ctrl-downArrow to the bottom row, but if you ever tried to fill 1M rows it would hang.