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Originally Posted by mbovenka
Quite :-). There is another extreme corner case where NTFS is useful, though: lots and lots of files.
I ran into it myself a while ago: I back up my Calibre library to a 128GB USB stick (FAT32 formatted, originally), and FreeFileSync suddenly started throwing errors that seemed to imply that the thing was full. It wasn't, so I was puzzled as to where the problem was. CHKDSK gave it a clean bill of health, so it wasn't file system corruption either.
Turned out it was a LFN -> 8.3 filename mapping collision.
Converting the stick to NTFS fixed it.
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Another possible solution: back up your library to a folder rather than the root of your USB stick. The root supports only so many entries (files or folders) but that restriction does not apply to the number entries in a folder.