How many files can I put in a directory?

Question

Does it matter how many files I keep in a single directory? If so, how many files in a directory is too many, and what are the impacts of having too many files? (This is on

Answer 1

I ran into a similar issue. I was trying to access a directory with over 10,000 files in it. It was taking too long to build the file list and run any type of commands on any of the files.

I thought up a little php script to do this for myself and tried to figure a way to prevent it from time out in the browser.

The following is the php script I wrote to resolve the issue.

Listing Files in a Directory with too many files for FTP

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