How to handle a lot of media files in the uploads folder? (+10.000)

  • I recently found out that FileZilla only displays 9998 files in a single folder, but our WordPress Media archive has over 58.000 pictures in three folders. So the standard sorting option by date (years and months) doesn’t seem to be such a good fit for such a high amount of files. Is there any way to better sort these pictures into subfolders to make them manageable?

    I already purchased the Enhanced Media Library plugin and the WordPress Media Library Folders plugin because it allows to actually move the pictures into subfolders, but with such a high number of file the interface doesn’t even load. Same with the cPanel File Manager, takes forever to load and then crashes… Any suggestion is much appreciated, thanks!

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  • I recently found out that FileZilla only displays 9998 files in a single folder,

    This is patently false.

    Don’t believe me? Try ten different FTP clients, and you’ll hit the same limit.

    That’s because this limit of 10,000 files (9998 + the two special directories . and ..) is a configuration setting in your FTP SERVER, not the FTP client or OS.

    If you run Pure-FTPD on your own server, you most likely have this line in your config:

    LimitRecursion 10000 8

    Change the 10000 figure to your desired higher value, restart the FTP Service, and see if FileZilla can’t display more files for you.

    If you run Pro-FTP, I think the setting is handled by ListOptions directive.

    If you don’t run your own server, contact your host. They may not increase the limit for you, but if they cite the same “FileZilla limit” falsehood, you know you need a new host.

    Bottom line: FileZilla has no hard-coded limit on how many files to display. The developers have actually tested display of millions of files. The limit is set by the FTP SERVER, not the FTP client.

    Thread Starter MatMayer

    (@matmayer)

    Thanks, you were absolutely right, our hoster has set the LimitRecursion to 10.000 and is not willing to change it.

    Now I found an old plugin called “Custom Upload Dir” which also allows to change the physical path of uploaded files, but unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work anymore since it last has been updated 2 years ago. Does anyone know another solution to change the physical path of WordPress uploads so we can spread our image files more evenly across different folders?

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