How many files can I load ?

Is it possible to load more than 25.000 files and rename them at once. Thank you for your time.

Reply to #1:

Hi Xavier,

Twenty-five thousand is not a hard limit, you can change that number in the settings. If you have a really powerful computer and solid state drives it *might* be ok, but I'd ask myself first, why do it? I'm just blue-skying here, but my knowledge of computer science tells me that performance will suffer, no matter processor and network and storage speed, and the possibility of inducing errors of catastrophic proportion only grows. But hey, if you are that confident in your outcomes, and the coding skills of the 20,000-plus programmers that brought you your operating system, there's no law against it. Well, there's the law of diminishing returns, but hey, that's like the Pirate Code, more of a guideline, really. :)

Bottom line for me: I find it hard to believe you achieve any real uptick in efficiency or speed with larger batches. Probably the opposite. I wouldn't personally do it, even with (or because of) a decade-plus experience with ARen and 45 years experience as a computer professional.

Thoughts, Kim?

Best,
DF

Reply to #2:
It is correct, that the performance might decrease significantly when adding that many files. That is why the limit is there. The performance may go down so much, that it is faster to split the batch in two smaller batches. The renaming batches scales linearly with the number of files, but when the batch is to finalised and all the checks are carried out, it does not scale linearly, which means more files will hurt performance a lot.

But the limit can be changed in the settings window. How much the performance will hurt, depends on the setup.