Thanks Randy! You may have just solved a quarantine of MXF files we had last week. We had nearly half our move show up as quarantined and I checked how many items were in the folder and it was less than 5k but I know it was also more than 3k.
On Aug 2, 2011, at 5:03 PM, "Randall L. Rike" <indypix4u@portablepost.com> wrote:
> 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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> 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
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