[LMB] AKICOTL: Computer Trouble OT:

[Michael Bauminger]

On Saturday, Dec 08, 2007 11:32 PM, Martin Bonham 
<martin at bonham.net.nz> wrote:

> Thanks to Digest lag, this has probably been answered
> several times already, but anyway just in case it hasn't.
>
> In Lois-Bujold Digest, Vol 31, Issue 26
> "Nicholas Rosen" <ndrosen at erols.com> asked
> > ...  I started  getting messages, "Cannot create or
> > replace {name]. The directory or file cannot be
> > created."
>
> You may have too many files and folders in the root
> directory of the flash Drive.
>
> Delete a couple of files on the flash drive, then create
> a subdirectory, and copy stuff into the subdirectory on
> the flash drive, rather than the root directory.
>
> IIRC the older file Windows systems, as used by floppy
> disks, and smaller flash drives (FAT12 and 16), had a
> hard limit for the number of folders or files (Directory
> entries) in the root directory. Subdirectory are not
> themselves limited in the same way, as they can
> daisychain extra space for the list of directory entries.

This is basically the same answer I started writing before I 
saw it. My only change is to tell you to move the files out 
of the flash drive to a folder on your hard (C:) drive 
rather than delete them, so that you can put them back into 
the subfolder once you make it.

-- Michael