The operating system gets unhappy if there are too many files in a folder. So WordSmith batch processing creates a numbered sub-folder ...\0 which receives the first 500 or so files; if you have chosen to work with more, it then makes another folder ...\1 for another 500 or so, until all your lists have been made.

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