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Recently I uploaded many files through Filezilla (mainly jpgs & htmls) and noticed that although files have been successfully uploaded and pictures all showed up on the website as well, yet the jpg files do not appear on the server pane of Filezilla. I also notice the Filezilla server pane file numbers always remain at 4998 although all files in my own directory shows 5064. From the picture uploaded here, jpg files are missing between 27-31Dec2025.
I also went to My infinityfree account File Manager noticed the total file number under htdocs folder also capped at 4998.
I thought the Inodes limit for free account is 80,000?
FTP servers of free hosting will struggle to show more than 5000 items in a single folder. In the Linux world a folder itself will take up 2 so it is capped at 4998. The files are still there, they are not deleted, you just cannot see them.
I think that all FTP server software has a setting built in with how many files they will return in a single listing. I know that PureFTPd, the software that we’re using, requires such a limit to be set.
Not having any limit at all could result in a very slow directory lookup, with a very large amount of data then being sent to the client, which then needs to display it all without breaking down.
Most software of any kind has limits on how many records they will return at once (especially over the network), but most software supports pagination to reconstruct long lists. FTP doesn’t have such a feature.
While you’re technically not wrong, the implication that the limit exists because “free hosting servers are weak” is ignores the fact that this limit is very common with FTP servers.
For @wiclee, rest assured that the files you have uploaded actually exist on your account, even if you can’t see them over FTP. If you would like to see them via FTP, my recommendation is to divide the files into subfolders with fewer than 5000 files each.
However, I created a sub-folder named Sub under htdocs in Filezilla. It was successfully created but just few seconds later the sub-folder was removed by system.
I then went to Control Panel, File Manager and created the sub-folder there and sucessfully copied a file over. When I came back to Filezilla but did not see the sub-folder there.
Your moved files are inside the new folder. But you have to open and edit pa2025.html also. Locate line 2039 and change the "<img src=“20260107.jpg” into <img src=“Sub/20260107.jpg”. Do the same for the files you moved already, changing the src value to the corresponding subfolder name.
I would advise editing pa2025.html on your local machine and uploading it after instead of editing directly in FTP/browser. Otherwise, it might also not display if the file count is still more than 5,000.
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