What is the maximum nesting depth of folders within each other?

[Serg123]

I need a structure of 10 nested folders inside each other.
This can be done in Obsidian ?

Thank you very much.

[holroy]

I don’t think Obsidian would hinder you from creating the structure, but the underlying file system of your device(s) might. You could very easily start approaching very long file paths which has been an issue in the past.

I’m kind of curious though, why do you want to nest the folders ten levels deep? It seems excessive.

[Serg123]

@holroy

I’m kind of curious though, why do you want to nest the folders ten levels deep? It seems excessive.

I have a lot of reference information and I like it when everything is in one main folder, and then the nested folders are categories that are divided into other categories.
I like it better this way.
I try not to give long names.

[DiCaver]

[Windows 11]
I’ve created 100 subfolders in one of my vault folders using Explorer. Opened Obsidian, went into that folder and:

• add two folders,
• remove one folder and
• add some notes

No problem. Was using two characters for folder names. By default, on Windows, the path cannot be longer than 260 characters, but through the registry, you can extend this to approximately 32,000 characters. (Could be that it’s some company policy.)

However, be cautious, on a C: drive (or whatever your Windows root drive is), you can have only 4.294.967.295 folders.

Cheers, Marko