Warning: you have exceeded the limit of 100 nested folders

Question

in red letters in Disk Utility. Machine slows and slows. Where, how, why, and whence do these folders get nested? and how to unnest, which one doesnt know which they are or where they are, out of thousands of folders? No utility out there can help, it seems.
Jascha Kessler

Answer 1

I have the exact same problem. I have an iMac G3,
600MHz, 512MB RAM, 40 GB capacity, running 10.4.7. I
have been using Apple Macs since their innovation.
My computer is running a little slower, but I do not
know if "Nesting of folders has exceeded the
recommended limit of 100" is the culprit.
I use Photoshop (on 9.2.2) quite a lot, but otherwise
I use 10.4.7 all the time for everything else. I have
searched the Information pages and Discussion panels
for an explanation and solution, all to no avail.
Nothing dastardly appears to have happened or about
to happen to my computer, so I shall just keep on
using it regardless. In the meantime, however, I
shall keep looking for an explanation and I hope, a
solution.
iMac
Mac OS X (10.4.5) 600 MHz Power PC G 3 512 MB
SDRAM
thanks for your interest. I dont know what causes all those nested folders; but I am on 10.4.8 now and no change in (mis)behavior. I run a G4 with now with 1600 speed from a replaced heart or whatever, and have 1.25 G Ram.. I find that I can locate all Empty folders with Spring cleaning, and delete them and get the machine running better and normally. I also clean up regularly with DISK WARRION, which seems to be hecessary, as well as Drive Genius from ProSoft Engineering. Meanwhile, I buy lottery tix, in hopes of a later Mac Pro desktop
Jascha Kessler