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30 secs. for folders to open
Folders in "My Documents" take a huge amount of time to
open after double clicking on them. The computer wouldn't even boot until I used Go-Back and ended up removing a bunch of added music files. I dragged the Pictures & Music to the desktop to get them out of My Documents, and still, it takes a long time to open any folders in My Documents. This is NOT the first computer this has happened to. Is there a limit of some kind as to how much data you can stick in one folder in Windows 98? |
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30 secs. for folders to open
Only one folder has a limit--My Documents. Move everything out of it to a
new folder. If this cures the problem, find a new home for the stuff you moved and limit how much goes into My Documents in the future. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "John B" wrote in message ... Folders in "My Documents" take a huge amount of time to open after double clicking on them. The computer wouldn't even boot until I used Go-Back and ended up removing a bunch of added music files. I dragged the Pictures & Music to the desktop to get them out of My Documents, and still, it takes a long time to open any folders in My Documents. This is NOT the first computer this has happened to. Is there a limit of some kind as to how much data you can stick in one folder in Windows 98? |
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30 secs. for folders to open
Sometimes a folder, especially My Documents, seems to take forever to open up. A possible cause of this behavior is too many files in the folder but only if you have thousands of files. See Microsoft Knowledge Base article Opening a Folder Takes a Long Time http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q153/1/14.asp. This problem can also arise, according to some reports, from having over ~100 sub-folders in My Documents, which can cause all folders to be slow in opening. This happens because of the special nature of My Documents, which is a particular type of system folder. Judging from the many discussions in the Microsoft Newsgroups, the folder My Documents is particularly subject to frequent slow-down problems that are not always easy to pinpoint. The easiest thing to do when the My Documents folder gets very slow at opening may be to create a new folder in a convenient place and to move some of your files there. "John B" wrote in message ... Folders in "My Documents" take a huge amount of time to open after double clicking on them. The computer wouldn't even boot until I used Go-Back and ended up removing a bunch of added music files. I dragged the Pictures & Music to the desktop to get them out of My Documents, and still, it takes a long time to open any folders in My Documents. This is NOT the first computer this has happened to. Is there a limit of some kind as to how much data you can stick in one folder in Windows 98? |
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30 secs. for folders to open
"John B" wrote in message ... Folders in "My Documents" take a huge amount of time to open after double clicking on them. The computer wouldn't even boot until I used Go-Back and ended up removing a bunch of added music files. I dragged the Pictures & Music to the desktop to get them out of My Documents, and still, it takes a long time to open any folders in My Documents. This is NOT the first computer this has happened to. Is there a limit of some kind as to how much data you can stick in one folder in Windows 98? Of course there is a limit. |
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