Viewing more than 10,000 files on a FTP file server? [closed]

Question

I've queued up over 10,000 files to be uploaded to a UNIX based FTP server using a freeware (Windows based) FTP client which as far as i can see has finished without error.

Now, when i view the remote directory (using the Windows software) the output is truncated to 10,000 filenames. This ever occurs when i use the Windows command line FTP tool. Is there a way i can see more than this limit using another piece of software? I just need to confirm all files where indeed uploaded.

Any ideas?

Any information regarding this limit is very welcome.

Answer 1

Please provide more information like specific OS and version. Also please list the names and versions of the ftp clients that you are using when you experience the problem.

A lot of files in a single directory can cause many programs to have problems. I would recommend reducing the number of files in a folder, by putting them in several folders.

The FTP client that you are using probably has an option to look at the raw log and you should be able to use that to determine if it's a problem with the server or your client. The clients could be using a slightly different method to retrieve the list of files.

The story is in the logs.

Answer 2

I also ran into this issue recently in FileZilla (it's non-client specific, btw). The setting is known as LimitRecursion. Talk to your host to adjust this rate. I simply created a ticket to LiquidWeb and this was fixed in a matter of minutes. For anyone else running into this issue.