1000 file limit in WM 5 ?

[Flaming Homer]

Wrote a small application that just created a 16-byte file in a WM 5.0
directory (say, \temp). It always dies on file #1001, with a error 122
(DISK IS FULL).

Is this normal ?

[Flaming Homer]

Sorry, error is 112

Same error on:

MIO
Symbol MC70
Symbol MC9094
WM5 Emulator

Didn't make a diffference if I wrote to flash (\temp) or SD (\storage card)

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[Hui Chen (MSFT)]

Is that your files have long names with same prefix? The file system might
run out of unique 8.3 names.

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[<ctacke/>]

I believe it's a FAT limitation. Try writing in a subfolder of the volume,
not the root, so \Storage Card\Data or \Temp\Data

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[Flaming Homer]

Actually, I did write them to a subfolder of the volume, such as
\test\testfile with same result.

To the other poster asking if I ran out of names, I don't think so.
Originally this problem showed up on an application that wrote filenames
derived from GUIDs

I would post my test program to demostrate this issue, but I'm really green
@ MFC and am embarrased to show my effort.

Same test program runs with flying colours on a PPC2003 (Symbol 9063) -
once compiled with eVc 4.0 - without any issues past 1000...

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[<ctacke/>]

Ah, MFC....all I can say is open the airlock and jettison that garbage.

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[Flaming Homer]

Well, somewhat of a solution.

I now create the files with a ".txt" extension (used to be without
extension), it lets me have more than 1000 files.

I speculate that for files w/o extension WM5 (and WM6 emulator for that
matter) allocates a hidden extension for you, say, .000 all the way to .999,
and when that's reached, you get a DISK_FULL

So lesson here is: Don't have more than 999 files in the same directory w/o
extension...

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