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In another question a user mentions that many drivers in Windows impose a limit of 2^23-1 files for ntfs.

Max files per directory on NTFS vol vs FAT32

Is this correct? I can't find any other references to this, however I am empirically running into corruption issues with around 10 million files.

EDIT: Fyi- my files are in reasonably sized subdirectories (none with more than a few thousand files). The problem arises somewhat consistently when I unrar an archive of millions of smallish files.

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  • "Maximum number of files in a single folder: 4,294,967,295", that is over 4 billion. – Moab Jun 24 '15 at 00:15
  • [Your issue may be file fragmentation](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/197162/ntfs-performance-and-large-volumes-of-files-and-directories) and not the amount of files – Moab Jun 24 '15 at 00:19
  • [Number of files in a folder is also a "theoretical" limit.](https://technet.microsoft.com/library/Cc938937) – Moab Jun 24 '15 at 00:24
  • Out of morbid curiosity, why would any one directory need to have 10 million or more files instead of some sensible (or nonsense) sub-directory structure? – killermist Jun 24 '15 at 00:29
  • My files are in subdirectoires – CoderBrien Jun 24 '15 at 04:31

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