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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
Not really sure, but I know my 128GB drive is formatted FAT32 and has no problem when I copy my library to it (about 8GB, 16,235 Files, 5,384 Folders).
Is the library all contained inside of a folder (mine is called 'Library') or are you copying all of the individual author folders directly to the root? IIRC FAT32 has a limit to the number of files/directories you can have directly in root (512 I think?).
Perhaps try a fresh reformat (FAT32) on the drive or use NTFS (if everything you'll be using it with with support that).
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As per my original post, the library is in the folder "2016 Calibre Library". At this time it is the only file in the root directory.
In my main library that I am attempting to backup to thumb drive and as of today there are more than 75000 author folders and a total of over 710,000 files (and over 300,000 folders when you consider the folders below each author). This particular library is almost 350Gig and as the thumb drive is a very slow drive the error showed up after over 16 hours of copying.
The error code showed up when attempting to copy the 26,979th folder. This was after over 16 hours of copying.
I seem to be coming up against fat32 limitations and am looking for suggestions on the best format if I want to be able to copy my entire library (reliably) and to be able to sync to it in future. I would prefer to be able to use the thumb drive on my Windows 10 systems as well as on older systems and Linux.