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Originally Posted by ghira
Thank you. I had never heard that. Searching in this forum I see the limit is 65k, which I am absolutely nowhere near. Still, hm.
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Remember that a file/directory can and will use more than one directory entry depending on the length of the name. One entry will be used for the short (8.3) filename and misc. info and an extra entry will be used for every 13 characters in the long file name. That is a file called this_is_a_somewhat_long_filename - author_names.epub which is 53 characters long would need 6 directory entries (1 for the short filename and file date, etc. plus 5 for the long filename). So that 'generous' looking 65,535 directory entries can get consumed very rapidly.