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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

Yay, I finally got a Zip drive! 100 MB of space!

So yesterday, I was transferring all my .jpeg's from my old floppies directly onto the new disk...

And at just over 14 MB, the thing STOPPED and said it "can't create file or directories" anymore?

What gives? Is there something I missed?

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Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :

Is it the USB zip drive? Those are supposed to be pretty cool. Unfortunately I don't know much about zip drives, could it be that weird click of death bug that people keep talking about? *shrugg*

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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

My first Zip died via the Click of Death and nearly took a disk with it.

DOS limits the number of files that can be placed in one directory in certain variations of the filesystem - be sure not all your files are in the same directory. *L*

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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

Yup yup. The disks are seperated into different clumps... you gotta save into a new clump. *LOL*

*can you tell i'm not a tecchie?*

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

either that, or your fly is open.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

What possible moronic reason could they have for limiting the number of files in a directory?

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

Well, turns out that's exactly what it was. Stupid to limit, if you ask me.

When I created folders and started saving to them as well, the problem cleared up.

Thankx.

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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

I think it's how the disk is made... it's made with different sections. *shrugs*.. My graphics teacher told me why at one point, but I was too busy teaching the other students how to use Adobe Photoshop at the time. *LOL*

Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

*laughs at all the Windows users*

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Frank, you are too kind. Do you hang out in front of supermarkets so you can mock the people using the handicapped parking spaces?

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Only if they're not handicapped.

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

In such situations, I always remark (in a STAGE WHISPER) that since that person's handicap does not appear to be physical...

Do ya get my drift?

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[This message has been edited by Baloo (edited July 05, 1999).]

Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :

Limiting the number of files in the root directory may simply be a convenience thing harking back to DOS.

To demonstrate go to the windows directory using DOS prompt and type "dir" or "tree"

Imagine how bad it would be if the number of files was not limited back yonder.

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Posted by HMS White Star (Member # 174) on :

If you think that is a lot of files type "Dir/s".

I sure that it has something to do with how DOS started.

O well I have cable modem so, I laugh a everyone who has a slower connection than me, other that people with bad connections.

Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

ONLY /s!? Goodness.
dir /a /s /o:gne /v

Have fun with THAT.

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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

If only we could limit the files in a directory here at work. Recently we migrated from a Document Processing System (that uses a database to remember where files are, and has templates and diaries and suchlike) based around WordPerfect 5.1 (I kid you not) to one using Word 97. But first we roll out Word, and people start using it to look into their directories where they have said thousands of files. Now, you try uising Open in Word to look into a directory like that - WITH THE PREVIEW PANE OPEN. Chaos, absolute chaos. . .

Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

*bangs head against wall*

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Okay, here's a word of advice. If you were going to try typing what CC pointed out there... don't. It's, um... rather long... :-)

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