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haertig · 02-13-2019, 11:53 AM

Most likely there is a reason for that message. I doubt they just randomly put it in there out of the blue to annoy users. My guess would be that they have some kind of software bug that causes intermittent and unpredictable issues when a high number of books a found in a single directory. You may not have experienced any issues. Yet. But you might tomorrow.

Or, this message could be a simple warning. There may indeed be a hard limit of how many books you can put into a single directory. Maybe that number is 2100. Or 2500. And they are just warning you that you are nearing this hard limit where you won't be able to add any more books. If this is the case, it would be nice if they told you what the actual hard limit is, and how many books you have. Something like "You can have a maximum of 2500 books in a single directory, and you currently have 2372. You can avoid problems in the future by starting a new directory."

Messages like this are sometimes used when programmers can observe a problem repeatedly, but can't determine the steps required to force it to happen reliably. It's kind of like "We realize there is a problem, but we haven't solved it. You may be able to avoid the problem if you do XYZ though. That sometimes, kindof, maybe seems to help on occasion."

What you decide to do with that message is up to you. You can heed it. Ignore it. Or try to find a software patch to disable it. If you really have over 2000 books in a single directory (wow!) then my guess is that you probably don't want any issues with that (maybe display glitches, some books not showing up, other corruption - who knows). You might already have these issues and just not be aware of it yet.

The best path is obviously for the programmers to fix there software. But since they obviously have not been able to do that yet, the choice of how you choose to coexist with the potential glitch/corruption is up to you. I would also warn you that just because they mentioned "2000 books" does not mean that this is a hard and proven limit. The problem might start occurring at 1500 books. Or 2500 books. Or 1000 books. Messages like you are seeing could be "dirty laundry" that programmers really wish you wouldn't be seeing in the first place. They are acknowledging a problem exists. And also acknowledging that they don't really know all aspects of the cause, let alone how to permanently fix it. Most programmers that I know (and I am one of them) tend to hide messages like this in comments in their code. But in your case, the programmers made it into a message displayed to the end user. That is not as common, but it happens.

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haertig Wizard Posts: 1,897 Karma: 31522252 Join Date: Sep 2017 Device: PW3, Fire HD8 Gen7, Moto G7, Sansa Clip v2, Ruizu X26	Most likely there is a reason for that message. I doubt they just randomly put it in there out of the blue to annoy users. My guess would be that they have some kind of software bug that causes intermittent and unpredictable issues when a high number of books a found in a single directory. You may not have experienced any issues. Yet. But you might tomorrow. Or, this message could be a simple warning. There may indeed be a hard limit of how many books you can put into a single directory. Maybe that number is 2100. Or 2500. And they are just warning you that you are nearing this hard limit where you won't be able to add any more books. If this is the case, it would be nice if they told you what the actual hard limit is, and how many books you have. Something like "You can have a maximum of 2500 books in a single directory, and you currently have 2372. You can avoid problems in the future by starting a new directory." Messages like this are sometimes used when programmers can observe a problem repeatedly, but can't determine the steps required to force it to happen reliably. It's kind of like "We realize there is a problem, but we haven't solved it. You may be able to avoid the problem if you do XYZ though. That sometimes, kindof, maybe seems to help on occasion." What you decide to do with that message is up to you. You can heed it. Ignore it. Or try to find a software patch to disable it. If you really have over 2000 books in a single directory (wow!) then my guess is that you probably don't want any issues with that (maybe display glitches, some books not showing up, other corruption - who knows). You might already have these issues and just not be aware of it yet. The best path is obviously for the programmers to fix there software. But since they obviously have not been able to do that yet, the choice of how you choose to coexist with the potential glitch/corruption is up to you. I would also warn you that just because they mentioned "2000 books" does not mean that this is a hard and proven limit. The problem might start occurring at 1500 books. Or 2500 books. Or 1000 books. Messages like you are seeing could be "dirty laundry" that programmers really wish you wouldn't be seeing in the first place. They are acknowledging a problem exists. And also acknowledging that they don't really know all aspects of the cause, let alone how to permanently fix it. Most programmers that I know (and I am one of them) tend to hide messages like this in comments in their code. But in your case, the programmers made it into a message displayed to the end user. That is not as common, but it happens. Last edited by haertig; 02-13-2019 at 12:00 PM.