Don't know about an upper limit, but, in the process of dinking around (a technical term) yesterday, I did an expor to 160 files of 1MB each, no problem. It was on Linux, but I don't think that matters. Jack C. Applewhite - Database Administrator Austin (Texas) Independent School District 512.414.9715 (wk) / 512.935.5929 (pager) I feel so unnecessary. -- Rufus Thomas ( "Do the Funky Chicken") "Sweetser, Joe" <Joe.Sweetser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 10/03/2006 10:46 AM Please respond to Joe.Sweetser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject Quick export question Windows 2003, 10gR1 I am exporting to multiple files with the FILE and FILESIZE parameters. Does anyone know if there is a maximum number of files I can export to? I can't find one on Metalink or Google (so I am inclined to believe there is not a limit) but I figured I would ask here. This is the old export, not data pump. :-( The reason is that I have to copy 60gb+ of files over a slow and somewhat unreliable network. I currently have filesize set to 15gb but I want to chop it down to 1gb so there is less to re-copy on a file copy failure. Thanks, -joe