Vista - 10000 files limit to be lifted soon?

Hi,

First off, thanks to the team. You've solved a problem that's plagued me for
several years - i.e. keeping my documents and other folders in sync between
my various machines. I'm guessing in the future you'll simply have everything
at one place - in the meantime sync'd replication is the answer to work
around bandwidth and latency.

Anyway, so I've setup a library called "My_Documents"; which keeps all the
"My documents" on the different computers in sync. The problem is that "My
Documents" has about 20-25 sub folders (My Music, My pictures, Manuals, Saved
HTML pages etc etc). Several years, several trip with a digital camera
quickly fills up # of files, plus if you have a single web page, it generally
comes with about 20-30 other smaller gif/jpeg and other files.

All said and done, I've got a very ordinary "My documents" folder that has
about 16k files in all.

Are there any plans to overcome the 10000 file limitation per library? It
appears quite arbitrary. rsync manages a much larger (unlimited?) file set,
so running into this was quite a surprise.

I could break stuff into multiple libraries, but it would simply break the
hierarchy of how I've organized stuff - it just wouldn't be natural.

Things get somewhat better under Vista where Documents, Pictures, Music,
Videos, etc. are all under their own folders...but the 10,000 limit is a big
problem for anyone with a lot of pictures, even on Vista. Thankfully I have
the professional level limit (20,000 files I think), but I'm getting close
to that with my photos. I really hope the FolderShare team will acknowledge
this problem and offer a higher file limit as a paid service (I think that's
a fair feature to charge for).

Jason Dunn
www.digitalhomethoughts.com
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"Jason Dunn" wrote:
Honestly Jason, if Microsoft starts charging for this, I'm guessing people
will move to freeware alternatives like unison or rsync (google in your
friend).

Or using microsoft's own freeware tool, called synctoy. If you use synctoy
along with the "netdrive tool (freeware, maps FTP server to windows drive
letter), you're pretty much set.

Don't get me wrong, I still prefer the easy, FolderSync way (even if it
copies the whole file, not just the difference as rsync). But when competing
with other *free* products, it hard to start charging ...

"Sid" <Sid@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2E8A6DD0-E836-4937-9FDA-D819959628BB@xxxxxxIt would be nice to have a two tiered approach though. Free for the 10K
limit and something like $50 a year for much higher limit.

> Honestly Jason, if Microsoft starts charging for this, I'm guessing peopleReally? You wouldn't pay for a premium level of FolderShare that has a
higher file limit, and perhaps some other features? I was paying for
FolderShare back before Microsoft bought it, and I know I'm not alone. I
wasn't suggesting they start charging for FolderShare the way it is not,
rather, a premium level of service.
I've used SyncToy, and although I haven't tried it with the netdrive tool,
involving FTP sounds like it makes things much more complex than it needs
to. Most people prefer simplicity, and are willing to pay for it.

Jason Dunn
www.digitalhomethoughts.com

The old 10,000 file limit still applies to the new site and client.

But we are looking at increasing it in the future. We don't have any
specifics at this point, but it is on the radar for something that we may
change in coming releases.

thx
-Mohammed


"Sid" <Sid@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Jason Dunn" wrote:I'm with Jason on this - I was a paid subscriber before and would readily do
it again. ESPECIALLY for an actual support system beyond a modestly
monitored forum.

- Jared in NYC