Is there a limit on the number of possible thumbnails (1 Viewer)

[miked]

I have a lot of photos, and I am noticing that media portal stops generating the preview thumbnails when the number of files in thumbs\Pictures gets to around 23,000. Is this a limit in media portal, or a limit of the FAT32 filesystem? Should I convert to NTFS?

...Mike

 

[tangmonster]

I think it might be a fat32 problem:

linky:

Query about limitation of files per folder in FAT32 File System - microsoft.public.win98.fat32 | Google Groups

"A directory in the FAT32 file system can
contain up to 65,536 entries. Each file or subdirectory in the
directory will use from one to thirteen entries, depending on the
length of the file name. Apparently each of your file names take two
entries.

The NTFS file system has no limit on the number of files or
subdirectories in a directory. It does have a limit of 4,294,967,295
files per partition. "

 

[miked]

Indeed you are correct...once I converted the drive to NTFS, thumbnail generation continued. Thanks for the tip.

...Mike