Cardfile Size Limitations

 Last reviewed: November 21, 1994
Article ID: Q91683
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Windows operating system versions 3.0, 3.0a, 3.1, 3.11
  • Microsoft Windows for Workgroups version 3.1

SUMMARY

Cardfile is limited by one 64K memory segment. Cardfile uses 52 bytes for each card, resulting in a maximum of 1260 cards. If you attempt to add another card, the following message displays: 

   Not enough memory to perform this operation. Quit one or more
   applications to increase available memory, and then try again.
Quitting one or more applications does not allow the addition of any more cards. The 64K segment is full, and no new cards can be added.

This 64K limitation does not apply to the information stored in each card. Each card can hold 39 characters for the title and 11 lines of 40 characters each (a maximum of 440 characters) for the body of the card. If you try to enter a 12th line or a 41st character on line 11, the following error message is displayed: 

   Cannot paste text onto the card. The text on the clipboard
   is too long to fit on a Cardfile card.
For example, a file that contains 1260 blank cards is 70,565 bytes in size. If you fill all 479 characters of every card, you have a file size of 624,965 bytes.

MORE INFORMATION

The last paragraph on page 444 of the "Microsoft Windows User's Guide" for version 3.1 states: 

   The number of cards you can store in a Cardfile file depends on the
   amount of memory in your computer and the amount of information on
   the individual cards.
This is misleading. You are limited to 1260 cards per file and 52 bytes per card. You can create new files, each with 1260 cards per file, until you are out of hard disk space.

KBCategory: kbusage kbtool
KBSubcategory: wfw wfwg win30 win31
Additional reference words: 3.11 3.00 3.00a 3.10 card file docerr limit

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Last reviewed: November 21, 1994
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