TYPO3 Core

Just a precision. There is a paginate system but it's done without offset / limit parameters in drivers. It loads the entire set of files and apply a limit on this set.

Hello

In one project (TYPO3 6.2), the user_upload folder contains 7000+ images, because user_upload is the default upload folder when uploading images from a content element or RTE.
The ElementBrowser crash every time an editor try to open it.

In recent version of TYPO3 (7 LTS), we can hook¹ to the default upload folder guessing : we will create one folder for each month (like in wordpress) to split the images in several folders.
We will also move the existing files into those monthly folder tree. This will be easy, thanks to the FAL.

[1] https://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3cms-core/repository/revisions/f54e28559d059495f46f3565bdfa06e68e518d85

I have a solution at Github https://github.com/jokumer/TYPO3-xfilelist (with compatibility versions for TYPO3 7, 8 and 9).

ext:xfilelist from Joerg Kummer allows us to circumvent the issue of thumbnails generation in the FileBrowser (local file system only).

Thanks Joerg Kummer!

Be aware, that there exist a TYPO3 initiative called Digital Asset Management which introduces a overhaul of the filelist and filebrowser functionality...
See https://github.com/TYPO3-Initiatives/digital-asset-management