Number of files on Flash Media

[Guest kanlatss81]

I just bought a digital picture frame and have a 2GB SD card to put pictures

on. The frame will not recognize folders so I just dumped the pictures on the

card. It would not allow more than 500 files. Is 500 the limit of files

allowed? Also, is there a way around that maximum file number. I have also

bought an 8GB Compact flash I was hoping to dump huge quantities of photo

files on. Please advise. Thanks! SJS

[Guest Alan Edwards]

Re: Number of files on Flash Media

 

There is certainly a limit on many drives and yours looks like 512.

Read here: (a bit old and doesn't cover flash drives)

 

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q39/9/27.asp

MS-DOS: Directory and Subdirectory Limitations

 

The solution is normally to use sub folders but that does not seem

possible for you.

 

You may be able to reformat it to NTFS though then your frame may not

recognize it. You may have it formatted to FAT and if so, try FAT32

 

....Alan

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Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer

http://dts-l.com/index.htm

 

 

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:16:01 -0700, in

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, kanlatss81

<kanlatss81@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I just bought a digital picture frame and have a 2GB SD card to put pictures

>on. The frame will not recognize folders so I just dumped the pictures on the

>card. It would not allow more than 500 files. Is 500 the limit of files

>allowed? Also, is there a way around that maximum file number. I have also

>bought an 8GB Compact flash I was hoping to dump huge quantities of photo

>files on. Please advise. Thanks! SJS

[Guest Andrew]

RE: Number of files on Flash Media

 

500 is the limit. sorry.

 

"kanlatss81" wrote:

> I just bought a digital picture frame and have a 2GB SD card to put pictures

> on. The frame will not recognize folders so I just dumped the pictures on the

> card. It would not allow more than 500 files. Is 500 the limit of files

> allowed? Also, is there a way around that maximum file number. I have also

> bought an 8GB Compact flash I was hoping to dump huge quantities of photo

> files on. Please advise. Thanks! SJS