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Old 02-14-2019, 11:01 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I was under the impression that it was only the root directory in a FAT file system that had a limit on the number of items it could contain?
FAT32 does not have a defined size for its directory (name entries), it is dynamically allocated and chained together.

IIRC, it is the way it stores long names that becomes unusable with a large number of entries.
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