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QotD: How Many Files

Posted August 16th, 2006 @ 07:53pm by Erik J. Barzeski

Question: Open Disk Utility. Select your main disk. Look at "Number of Files" at the bottom. What does it say?

My Answer: 667,836.

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21 Responses to "QotD: How Many Files"

  1. Quote Mekdf
    Posted 16 Aug 2006 at 8:09pm #

    877,908


  2. Quote MeFrode Danielsen
    Posted 16 Aug 2006 at 8:41pm #

    799,317


  3. Quote MeGeir-Tore Lindsve
    Posted 16 Aug 2006 at 9:10pm #

    503,098


  4. Quote MeScott Crick
    Posted 16 Aug 2006 at 9:12pm #

    401,483

    Of course, this isn't my main Mac.


  5. Quote MeMario
    Posted 16 Aug 2006 at 9:14pm #

    362,183


  6. Quote MeDaniel
    Posted 16 Aug 2006 at 9:19pm #

    739,807


  7. Quote MeMartin Gordon
    Posted 16 Aug 2006 at 10:20pm #

    95,206 on my 5 day old MacBook.


  8. Quote MeAaron Linville
    Posted 16 Aug 2006 at 11:07pm #

    107,177 files on my 4 day old hard drive in my 2.3 yeard old PowerBook.


  9. Quote MeAaron Linville
    Posted 16 Aug 2006 at 11:08pm #

    107,177 files on my 4 day old hard drive in my 2.3 year old PowerBook.


  10. Quote MeMike Zornek
    Posted 17 Aug 2006 at 12:32am #

    660,682


  11. Quote MeBud Landry
    Posted 17 Aug 2006 at 12:46am #

    386,780 on 40 gig, no iTunes


  12. Quote MeFT'e
    Posted 17 Aug 2006 at 2:30am #

    Oh my! 732'105! Soon we'll need file systems capable of handling a a file count coded with 128 bits... :/


  13. Quote MeChris Ridd
    Posted 17 Aug 2006 at 3:26am #

    You bunch of part timers :-)

    I've got 1,132,917 on my Powerbook.


  14. Quote MeDiego Barros
    Posted 17 Aug 2006 at 7:38am #

    506,087


  15. Quote MeClark Cox
    Posted 17 Aug 2006 at 3:06pm #

    1,009,344


  16. Quote MeJeremy
    Posted 17 Aug 2006 at 7:55pm #

    976,546


  17. Quote MePatrickQG
    Posted 17 Aug 2006 at 11:12pm #

    A measly 743,900 files on / on my 14 month old PowerBook.


  18. Quote MeSam Warmuth
    Posted 18 Aug 2006 at 11:48am #

    1,219,930 on my 3-year-old PowerMac


  19. Quote MeJesper
    Posted 18 Aug 2006 at 5:38pm #

    858,146. (MacBook, but inheriting old PowerBook files.)


  20. Quote MePaul Mayne
    Posted 29 Aug 2006 at 12:39am #

    211,408 on my Windows XP Dell. (and I thought I had a lot of files)


  21. Quote MeSerdar Kilic
    Posted 29 Aug 2006 at 9:01am #

    Number of Files : 682,257
    and fwiw the size:
    Used : 75.8 GB (81,436,762,112 Bytes)

    Yiykes.



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