Limit of 65000 folders

[AndrewS]

Hi Simon,

Posted about this yesterday, and you replied, but post no longer appears... (? forum was throwing 403 errors last night) So, carrying on the discussion...

Firstly, yes, all folders contain music files. I used to have a music store, and I've been curating my library a long time. 30,300 mp3 albums alone, which iTunes orders in artist then album folders = 47,000. Then I have Hi-res flac versions ripped of many of them. So it does add up.

OK, so running multiple instances of Minimserver on a Mac is not possible. That negates a possible solution (but does mean I don't have to puzzle out how to do it! )

What about running two Macs (I have an older laptop), each running an external HD indexed by minimserver using unique hostnames? Would that create any incompatibilities (need to set different ports perhaps)? It'd mean splitting my library across drives, but that'd be easy enough.

May I ask whether a significant increase in the limit is possible? And I imagine there is a pragmatic reason (memory usage perhaps?) why the limit exists?

Any other suggestions?

Thank you