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From: Herbert Graf <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2000 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Win98 SE scandisk error msg


> >     I ran into this problem when I first got my LS-120 drive and
tried
> > placing over three hundred photos from my digital cam on it. The
root
> > directory can only contain a certain number of files on it
(mid-200's in
> > count I believe). Once I placed a directory on the root and
> > started placing
> > the photos in there, I had no more problems. Sounds to me like your
root
> > directory on C: is having this problem. Try removing (or moving)
> > files from
> > it to another folder. One popular cause would be the file####._dd
files
> > placed there from scandisk. I have seen many clients of mine with
> > well over
> > a hundred of these files on C:
>
>         With regards to this, does anybody know if this limit also
applies to
> DirectCD volumes created with Adaptec DirectCD? I also did this sort
of
> thing, storing something like 350 files in the root directory of a CDR
> formatted with DirectCD and encountered a similar problem. Does
anybody know
> if DirectCD has a file count limit? Thanks for any info. TTYL
>
I had this same problem creating a CDR.  I put several hundred files
into the root directory of the CD and the creating software did not
complain, but no computer would read the resulting disc.

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