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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Probably too many entries in the root of E: drive, dlet some or move them into a sub-folder. FAT filesystems such as the kindle uses have very low limit on the number of items in the root directory.
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Nope. The root directory has only four subdirectories (and all the books are in the "documents" subdir) and two Calibre metadata files.
Closer inspection showed that metadata.calibre was 0 bytes in size, and when I tried to delete it I got a "corrupt file" error: "The file or directory \metadata.calibre is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility". So, in fear and trepidation I did so. Some tangled block chains were untangled and it all started working properly again.
Not sure why this should have happened, though. The Kindle is a new one (about a month old). The only thing I can think of is a dodgy USB connection, but even then...
Oh well. Problem solved, anyway.