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Richard MacCutchan12-Jul-20 0:25

Richard MacCutchan

12-Jul-20 0:25

By today's standards maybe. Wink | ;)

Nelek12-Jul-20 1:56

12-Jul-20 1:56

What happens if I enter "42" or "liquid nitrogen"?

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OriginalGriff12-Jul-20 2:02

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12-Jul-20 2:02

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Nelek12-Jul-20 2:42

12-Jul-20 2:42

M.D.V.

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Rage12-Jul-20 23:33

Rage

12-Jul-20 23:33

I just did and ended up here.

Nelek13-Jul-20 2:05

13-Jul-20 2:05

Welcome!!! Big Grin | :-D

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Gerry Schmitz12-Jul-20 6:13

Gerry Schmitz

12-Jul-20 6:13

Quote:
"Hello! I am AI to talk."

Needs more work.

It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

Griping mood again

David O'Neil11-Jul-20 14:17

David O'Neil

11-Jul-20 14:17

Found out lately that Windows has a timer/stopwatch (Universal App?) thingy in it. Cool, I'll use it! But wait, it doesn't make a noise when the time is up. Why? Because they decided that all (Universal Apps) share the same setting, and you must allow all to hear one. Of course I disabled that when installing this box a year ago, because I don't want to hear a beep every time something changes. But it would be nice to hear alarms and timers. Sigh | :sigh:

Tempted to use the word 'idiots.' Usability going backwards.

That's all. Gripe's over. Have a good day!

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RickZeeland11-Jul-20 20:17

RickZeeland

11-Jul-20 20:17

Then you will have to write a Universal Filter app that can filter out certain sources $Shucks | :-\$

David O'Neil12-Jul-20 3:17

David O'Neil

12-Jul-20 3:17

There is probably as much chance of me doing that as there is of you doing that! A big Zero! Laugh | :laugh:

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Sander Rossel12-Jul-20 0:37

Sander Rossel

12-Jul-20 0:37

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   ash sound gimbatul,
Ash sound thrakatulûk
   agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

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11917640 Member 12-Jul-20 2:27

11917640 Member

12-Jul-20 2:27

Ash sound all included?

David O'Neil12-Jul-20 3:25

David O'Neil

12-Jul-20 3:25

Had to do some googling! I lose a thousand geek points! And what's with you, not knowing the words for 'operating system?' Minus a hundred for that! Laugh | :laugh:

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Nelek12-Jul-20 1:59

12-Jul-20 1:59

David O'Neil wrote:
Tempted to use the word 'idiots.'

Use it, using only "idiots" to describe some of the Elephant | [mastadon]

ing moronic piece of sh... they are doing lately is still a nice description.

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Storing huge numbers of files

Gerry Schmitz12-Jul-20 6:20

Gerry Schmitz

12-Jul-20 6:20

Need a voice (text to speech) option: "At the tone ...", or "WAKE UP!!", etc.

It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

kalberts11-Jul-20 9:29

kalberts

11-Jul-20 9:29

This is about file systems in general, although with a primary emphasis on NTFS:

If you are expecting to stor a huge number of files - in the order of 100 k or more - on a disk, is there any significant advantage of spreading them over a number of subdirectories (based on some sort of hash)? Or are modern file systems capable of handling a huge number of files in a single level directory?`

If there are reasons to distribute the files over a series of subdirectories, what are the reasons (/explanations) why it would be an advantage?

Is this differnent e.g among differnt FAT variants, and with NTFS?

Richard Andrew x6411-Jul-20 9:33

Richard Andrew x64

11-Jul-20 9:33

I can tell you from experience that Windows does not do well with thousands of files in a single directory.

You will be much better off distributing them over many sub-dirs.

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kalberts11-Jul-20 9:53

kalberts

11-Jul-20 9:53

Can you provide an explanation of why it would be that way? Or is it at the "gut feeling" level?

DRHuff11-Jul-20 15:33

DRHuff

11-Jul-20 15:33

People don’t relate well to numbers and this is a place where camaraderie is important. A name - even an obvious alias will make the interactions more personable.

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Choroid13-Jul-20 4:30

Choroid

13-Jul-20 4:30

Does that mean I am friends with OriginalGiff ?

Johnny J.11-Jul-20 22:08

Johnny J.

11-Jul-20 22:08

I can't explain why that is, but it's quite simple to test. Write a small piece of code that copies an image file into the same directory multiple times. Doesn't have to be 100.000, I think 10-20.000 will suffice.

Then try to open that directory with Explorer.

That'll give you an idea about the problem. Sigh | :sigh:

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Daniel Wilianto13-Jul-20 3:00

Daniel Wilianto

13-Jul-20 3:00

Probably because a windows folder isn't designed to contained 10,000 files, unlike database table which is expected to contain millions of rows. Or spreadsheets.

When we browse into a folder using windows explorer, it tried to read all file names inside that folder. There's no virtualization or partial loading. Reading 10,000 file names and extensions is surely detrimental.

EDIT : it's probably fine as long as you don't browse it using any explorer view.

obermd13-Jul-20 3:21

obermd

13-Jul-20 3:21

At one point Microsoft actually recommended no more than 10,000 files per directory in NTFS. This was years ago, however.

The real reason is that file name scans inside a directory are sequential.

milo-xml13-Jul-20 5:03

milo-xml

13-Jul-20 5:03

I've had experience with a large numbers of files in a directory. They load slow, if at all when you try to view them in the directory.