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Originally Posted by mbovenka
No, I wasn't; the only entry in the root of the drive is my Calibre directory. And the 'maximum number of root file entries' comes from FAT16 (where it was 512); FAT32 does not have that limit, as the root directory is not a fixed structure as it was in FAT16, but an ordinary cluster chain, just like subdirecties.
What I ran into was akin to a hash collision, as the 8.3 name is in effect a hash of the long name and thus subject to the same potential problems. |
Yes, I was a bit confused. Thanks for the correction indeed.