Ive been using SuperMemo for less than two months, and over 71,000 files and over 7,000 directories appear in the folder. Is this normal to have that many files?
It depends on how you use SuperMemo. If you use plain text or rich text components, all texts are stored in a single file. If you use HTML, each topic will be kept in a single HTML file. This way, if you import 1000 articles to read, your collection will include 1000 HTML files. However, if you save HTML on your hard disk (e.g. with File : Save As in Internet Explorer), each file can be made of hundreds of images, icons, text files, scripts, etc. If you import such a file to SuperMemo, it will copy all those files and integrate them with the collection. It is thus recommended that when you paste HTML, you leave all this file ballast on the remote server, while integrating only the most vital components (e.g.