Virtual Folders


If there is a large number of files in a single folder (hundreds or thousands), populating the file list can take some time. The wait is only a few seconds for a couple of hundred files, but for thousands of files, you can wait for a minute or more. To alleviate this problem, Rapid Sitemaps introduces the concept of Virtual folders. These are just subfolders that have the same path as their parent folder. If there are more than a specified number of files in a folder (The number is specified in Options General, default 500), Rapid Sitemaps will create virtual folders to keep the files in.

Virtual folders are identified by this icon , and are named _vf_aaa_bbb where aaa is the first three letters of the first file in the folder, and bbb is the first three letters of the last file in the folder.

You may not add new folders to Virtual Folders, and you may not delete Virtual Folders, but you can edit all files in a Virtual Folder. Adding or deleting files from Virtual Folders will actually add or delete them from the parent folder, and all virtual folders will be re-allocated to maintain alphabetic order.

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