On 10/29/21 5:03 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Douglas McGarrett composed on 2021-10-29 16:32 (UTC-0400):
After it copies about 5 files, it will not copy any more. Directory shows 14 MiB on the disk. (I have previously cleared the flash with gParted and told it to be fat32 FOUND PROBLEM: One of the filenames had a colon (:) in it, and the copy routine could not get past that. All is fine now. Sorry to have bothered you! Using ntfs file system now and redid filename without : --I should know better! (This is not something I do frequently!) Thanx for all replies. --doug
Media files are often larger than FAT32's maximum file size of 4GB-1. Could this be what's really going wrong? ExFAT has no 4GB-1 limit.
Another possible problem is sloth. It may be that the real problem is backlog due to slow I/O if a USB2 stick, and/or USB2 port.