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NET methods Directory. GetFiles dir or DirectoryInfo. GetFiles are not very fast for just getting a total file count. Subsequent calls will be semi-cached by Windows, I guess. The System. IO namespace provides such a facility. It contains types that allow reading and writing to files and data streams, and types that provide basic file and directory support.

To get the count of certain type extensions using LINQ you could use this simple code:. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. File count from a folder Ask Question. Asked 11 years, 11 months ago. Active 7 months ago. Viewed k times. NET with C? Peter Mortensen Sreejesh Kumar Sreejesh Kumar 2, 11 11 gold badges 49 49 silver badges 72 72 bronze badges.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. GetFiles method Also see Directory. TopDirectoryOnly : Includes only the current directory in a search. This seems to be including the count of subfolders. That is, I have one subfolder and in an otherwise empty directory and this returns 1. MichaelPotter is it possible it was counting desktop. X4lldux X4lldux 5 5 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. What is the benefit of using os.

The latter is shorter and, IMO, more clear than the former. Is there perhaps some OS:es on which the latter would fail? HelloGoodbye That's exactly the reason. For those who uses python3, print len os. Show 5 more comments. Luke Luke 1, 1 1 gold badge 10 10 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. This isn't recursive — Kyle Bridenstine. The OP didn't ask for it to be recursive — Fandango Guillermo Pereira Guillermo Pereira 1, 10 10 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges.

The editing queue is full so Please, do not use the builtins list, dir as a variable name or a placeholder! This is where fnmatch comes very handy: import fnmatch print len fnmatch. This is much faster about half the time with my testing on a directory with 10, files if you know the pattern you're looking for, rather then testing each file with os. Also significantly faster than glob.

But not sure what's going on with underscores inside the sum function, could you please elaborate. This is completely recursive and probably the best answer here. This should be the most appropriate answer, to also count the files in any subfolders..

I am surprised that nobody mentioned os. Works great with Python 3. This might be useful sometimes but it includes subdirectories in the count also — Brian Burns. Marcus Riemer 6, 7 7 gold badges 50 50 silver badges 68 68 bronze badges. Somyadeep Shrivastava Somyadeep Shrivastava 1 1 silver badge 5 5 bronze badges. Also, no need of directory path if the python file is in the same directory.

This uses os. LBes LBes 3, 1 1 gold badge 24 24 silver badges 55 55 bronze badges. Paul Paul 4, 2 2 gold badges 28 28 silver badges 59 59 bronze badges. Kristian Damian Kristian Damian 1, 3 3 gold badges 21 21 silver badges 43 43 bronze badges. OP is not looking for recursive count — SilentGhost.

Luke's code reformat. Here is a simple one-line command that I found useful: print int os. Bojan Tunguz Bojan Tunguz 41 2 2 bronze badges. Windows' limit on the number of files in a particular folder [closed] Ask Question.

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Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. FAT32 "There's no practical limit on the combined sizes of all the files in a folder, though there may be limits on the number of files in a folder. Maximum disk size: terabytes Maximum file size: terabytes Maximum number of files on disk: 4,,, Maximum number of files in a single folder: 4,,, Note that when I say "disk" above, I'm really talking about "logical" disks, not necessarily physical. Eduardo Cuomo Eduardo Cuomo Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge.

There are limits. See: superuser.