Trim Your Folders for Faster Loading
Some folders seem to take forever to load. Michael Segal of Brookline, Massachusetts, suggests a reason why. The FAT32 file system has trouble handling folders with more than 32KB of directory listings, and it slows down considerably at that point. The directory listing contains file names and other data; but the number of files, not the file sizes, is what matters. Generally, a folder reaches 32KB only if it contains at least 400 to 600 files and subfolders. The solution: Move some of the files to another folder.
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