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Re: Somewhat OT: Limit of 114 files on 1GB SD card?



 Don Levey wrote: 
> Nathan Meyers wrote: 
>> Don Levey wrote: 
>>> To follow up, if I created a top-level directory, and put all my 
>>> files there, it was fine.  It's only trying to create that 115th 
>>> item at the top level.  Strange... 
>>>  -Don 
>>> 
>> The root directory in FAT12 and FAT16 filesystems are a fixed size - 
>> subdirectories are not. That size is set when formatting. 
>> 
>> Nathan 
> 
> Wow - it's been long enough ago that I've dealt with FAT file systems 
> that I'd forgotten that there was a limit.  Thanks! 
>  -Don 
> 


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