11-18-2022, 05:13 PM
|
#7
|
Resident Curmudgeon
Posts: 79,799
Karma: 146391129
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Frenzie
It seems unlikely that you'd have reached a file limit since that means many thousands of files and folders, but in any case it's a per folder limit, so simply moving a few thousand into a subfolder should resolve the problem if JSWolf's hunch is correct.
|
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...irectory-limit
Quote:
The maximum number of files within a directory of a FAT file system is 65,536 if all files have short filenames (8.3 format). Short filenames are stored in a single 32-byte entry.
That means the maximum size of a direcotry (file) is 65,536 * 32 bytes, i.e. 2,097,152 bytes.
Short filenames in 8.3 format consists of 8 characters plus optional a "." followed by maximum 3 characters. The character set is limited. Short filenames that contain lower case letters are additionally stored in a Long File Name entry.
If the filename is longer (Long File Name), it is spread over multiple 32-byte long entries. Each entry contains 13 characters of the filename. If the length of the filename is not a multiple of 13, the last entry is padded.
Additionally there is one short file name entry for each Long File Name entry.
2 32-byte entries are already taken by the "." and ".." entries in each directory (except root).
1 32-byte entry is taken as end marker?
So the actual maximum number of files in a directory depends on the length of the filenames.
|
|
|
|