A poster in the 'microsoft.public.windows.file_system' newsgroup asked if there was a way to detect if a folder contained an 'Excessively Large Number Of Files'.

I have scripted ExcessivelyLargeNumberOfFiles.bat to detect if a specified folder, and/or its' sub-folders, contained more than N files.

The syntax for using ExcessivelyLargeNumberOfFiles.bat is:

ExcessivelyLargeNumberOfFiles Folder1 Tolerance1 \[Folder2 Tolerance2 ... FolderN ToleranceN\]

where each FolderX and ToleranceX pair specifies a folder path to be checked for more than the specified number of files.

ExcessivelyLargeNumberOfFiles.bat contains:

@echo off
if \{%2\}
\{\} @echo Syntax: ExcessivelyLargeNumberOfFiles.bat Folder1 Tolerance1 \[Folder2 Tolerance2 ... FolderN ToleranceN\]&goto :EOF
setlocal
:loop
if \{%1\}
\{\} goto finish
set folder=%1
set work=%2
set /a tol=0
:tolloop
if "%work%" EQU "" goto shiftit
if "%work:~0,1%" NEQ "0" goto settol
set work=%work:~1%
goto tolloop
:settol
set /a tol=%work%
:shiftit
shift
shift
if not exist %folder% @echo Folder %folder% does NOT exist.&goto :loop
set subf=%folder%
call :testsub
for /f "Tokens=*" %%a in ('dir %folder% /b /ad /s') do (
 set subf="%%a"
 call :testsub
)
goto loop
:finish
endlocal
goto :EOF
:testsub
set /a num=0
for /f "Tokens=1-4" %%a in ('dir %subf% ^|Find " File"^|Find " bytes"') do (
 if "%%a" NEQ "0" set /a num=%%a
)
if %num% LEQ %tol% goto loop
@echo %subf% %num%