Number of Files on a computer

[Pat Fairbank]

I only have 115,377 files and 6,337 folders, but this is on my laptop which I got a couple of months ago.

[Matt Attallah]

20,225 files in 1,308 folders

3.97 Gb used / 1.61 Gb Free - 5.59 Gb total.

This is my older labtop - not half bad!

[evulish]

Hmm. There's 60,000 on the parents desktop. 300,000 between my laptop and 100gb drive on the desktop (I forgot I had it shared when I started the search). There's 30,000 files on my server. Then theres still my 40gb drive and 200gb drive on the desktop. I'd say I have well over half a million files.

*nix: find / -print > tmp ; wc -l tmp ; rm tmp (old one counted lines of every file )

Come to think of it, there's probably 40,000 files or so on my backup server drive that doesn't work in the computer. I estimate there's 200,000 files or so on my 40gb drive. It holds WinXP/Gentoo. My 200gb drive probably has 30k files.

If my estimations are correct, I have 660,000 files. My personal storage space is 400gb (340gb in the desktop, 60gb in the powerbook). Adding my parents and sisters computers, I have 500gb.

Actually, my estimate was low for my desktop. There were 405,000 files on my 200gb and 40gb combined. So I have 835,000 files

So am I winning?

[robot180]

I think this is a little too vague to be a competition. I just counted the computer that I am using. I have two others with well over 60,000 files combined, plus my dad's computer with about 90,000 files and my brother's with approximately 102,000 files. Then, my parents use a network of computers for their buisness work. Three computers with a combined count of 411,500 files. Another computer, the server, has about 30,000 files on it.

If you want to get even more technical, I have a collection of sports watches that are basically a computer. I don't know how you would count that information. I have a Playstation 2, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Genisus, and an original Gameboy that all use files. I have a cell phone that runs on programs and files. It even stores each entry in the address book in a different file. I have a TI-83 calculator that uses files. I also have two game system memory cards that store files.

So, I think you should clarify the definition of a file a little more.