Explorer View

A document library in SharePoint 2013 with over 10,000 documents when opened in Explorer view does not show any content. The message displayed in the browser is "the folder is empty". Explorer view works fine for other other
document libraries in the site with fewer documents. I want to move the documents from the document library to a File server share for archiving purposes. Any suggestions to address the issue will be appreciated.
Thanks
MP

I changed the List View Threshold for the Web App for the site that has the document library from 5000 to 30000 and now I can see content of the document library in Explorer view. I was able
to copy a document to a network drive using Explorer view. Once documents are moved from the Library root to Folders, I will change the setting back to 5000.
The following posting was helpful:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6093955/exceeds-the-list-view-threshold-5000-items-in-sharepoint-2010
On my PC, I had increased the value of
FileAttributesLimitInBytes.
Opening document library in Explorer view also worked from a PC on which I had not changed the value for FileAttributesLimitInBytes.
Thanks all for recommendations and suggestions.
MP

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