When MXF was first supported, the limit was 10,000. Avid quickly found
performance to suffer with this value. The higher the file count, the
larger the Media Databases. Avid can handle "many" databases, just not
large ones. Around the time MC v2.5 was released Avid dropped the file
count to 5,000.
At the same time, while I was at The Post Group, we were seeing "Quarantine"
errors , during the Scanning & Indexing, when doing manual file deletions.
I relocated media files into multiple folders, keeping the file count below
3,000, and they all Scanned & Indexed without errors. So, none of the files
were actually bad, but the system just didn't have enough RAM to finish the
process.
I talked to Avid engineering about this, and requested a max file count of
2,500. Hey, it's only two characters, in one line of code, right. Nothing
has ever been done about this, probably because many users were upgrading to
64-bit OS's, and the symptom doesn't present there due to more efficient
handling of memory.
Best regards,
Randy
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(818) 406-8480 Mobile
IndyPix4U@PortablePost.com
From: Lou Wirth <loutv@mindspring.com>
Reply-To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 13:30:02 -0700
To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [Avid-L2] MXF folders
What is the number of files that tells the MXF folder to create a new one?
There are numerical folders in the MXF and if I am restoring media, what
limit should I put on the number of files per folder?
Lou
Lou Wirth Productions
500Tamal Plaza, Suite 522
Corte Madera, CA 94925
www.louwirth.com
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