Is there a maximum number of files that can be located in a Google Drive folder? Is there performance when many files (for example, a million of them) remain in the same folder?
From what I understand (mainly after reading how the API works), there’s no real “folder” concept in Google Drive. Folders are only represented by a specific type of file, and folder ownership is described only in file metadata, but the files themselves are simply a long unstructured list of blobs with metadata. This suggests that having a large number of files in one directory should not be a big problem.
But I would like to get more expert opinions on this issue.
(of course, folders with a large number of files will be damaged if they are synchronized with my disk, but I'm just going to request them using the API)
EDIT I will not use the web interface. The types of requests I'm going to execute are to send a file to this giant folder and get a file with its name. This basically means that I use this folder as a hash table. Therefore, I assume that the actual question is: if you make a request like
'big_folder_id' in parents and title = 'some_key'
(assuming that there is only one file with a name in the folder some_key), does performance affect the fact that big_folder_idthere are many files in the identified folder that may be acceptable?
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