Thread: [Device Plugin] Kobo Touch Extended Driver
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Old 05-21-2013, 11:17 PM   #217
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Mingyar View Post
Don't know if I have to post here to say I opened a new bug report.
If I have to do this, it's done, otherwise, sorry.
I just had a look at the bug. It a deficiency of the device, and we can't easily do something about it.

The device used FAT32 for the partition that contains the books. All the cover images are stored in one folder. The FAT32 file system allows 64K directory entries per directory. That means up to 64K files per directory. But, if long file names are used, they take up more than one directory entry per file. As the image file names are based on the full path of the books plus a bit, the name get to be fairly long. And there are three covers images per book. So, 2000 books means 6000 cover images. From discussion before on this, that is about the maximum that will be in the directory.

There has been some discussion on this in the Kobo forum that included some suggestions for workarounds. It came up again in the last few days, so shouldn't be hard to find.

I an think of a really simple thing to do, but I wouldn't want to put it in the driver at this point. I am working on a utilities plugin, and it would fit nicely in that. But, I really should put out what I have done before adding more function. I just can't bring myself to finish the documentation that is going to be needed.
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