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Hi All,thought everythings perfect but after I copied all my music files on the new HD I observe some problems. Upfront before I go into details:- folders structure "A-Z" and as subdirectories "Artist" and subdirectory "Albums"- total: 151GB in 27000 files and 2600 folders2 problems A)After I copied the files and intialized the database about 16000 files were imported into the data base which took very long but ok I can wait.But it stopped which results in an ncomplete database!In the "developers section" under "System" "View database info" I can see the 100% progress are reached after the letter L which equaly to the 16k files.B) If i browse through the "Files" there are no files ("Artists" and Albums" and no "songs" displayed after the letter "L"I checked all settings but the only one which I think may have an influence is the directory cache: enabled and the max number of files per directory set to max = 10000 files. If I connect the H140 to the laptop via USB all of the Artists, Albums and Songs are there! I can even play them on the laptop using for example VLC player.
Questions:- has anybody experienced this before and if yes how to solve - is there a wrong setting on my H140?
- or is there a general Rockbox restriction which doesnt allow to load more than 16k files?
- do I need to change the file structure for example just put all "Artist" folders in the top level?
But as soonas I start from ROM or RAM image suddenly stable build r.... = 3.12 is mounted aagain and this build does not take more files thn 16k.This version is even on when I delete the rockbox folder!
Just as FYI and future reference:I stepped away from using FAT32formatter because I think it might had something to do with my ssd having died off after about 2,5 years (= several Rockbox updates = several ssd reformats).I think it's the bootloader (7pre4) that forces me to format and reinstall the whole disk every time I want to do an Rockbox update - even if I go back to the version that was on the disk before I get an checksum error at boot time.[edit August 21st 2017]Seems like others experience the same problem (see comment section of the linked site). Also, it might be that this problem affects only certain rockbox (main) releases:https://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/12769?string=h140&project=1&type%5B0%5D=&sev%5B0%5D=&pri%5B0%5D=&due%5B0%5D=&reported%5B0%5D=&cat%5B0%5D=&status%5B0%5D=open&percent%5B0%5D=&opened=&dev=&closed=&duedatefrom=&duedateto=&changedfrom=&changedto=&openedfrom=&openedto=&closedfrom=&closedto=[/edit]And as the FAT32formatter seems to work "with brute force" (initialising disk) or maybe it's the sector size of 512 bytes it's using one sometimes has to tried a few times until the disk is finally formatted correctly.Since I found out about the new main release of Rockbox (3.14) I did this procedure all over again and the ssd was reaction slowly afterward I got the feeling the FAT32formatter "did it again".I also "updated" my 240GB hdd (as backup). But with that one I used the FAT32format (guiformat) tool (http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm). That proposes 32768 which work fine, too (the H140 boots).I just found out that that's not 32768 bytes per sector but 512 bytes per sector * 64 sectors per cluster - so it's bytes per cluster. The program says allocation unit size. I thought that was bytes per sector because one can also choose 512 - my bad.Anyway - I feel more comfortable using the FAT32format (guiformat) than the FAT32Formatter for now.And thinking about that having to reformat every time I update Rockbox I came across https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IriverFlashing (and http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RoLo). I think I visited that page a few years back and fiddled with my H140. So, I thought maybe I flashed my H140 but never updated the flash version after updating the files on the disk. But as it turns out I never did it right, so I never actually flashed my H140.So, this time I actually flashed my H140. But if you do so, please do NOT forget to do a backup = ROM dump first! I somehow missed it and would have been screwed (kind of) if I didn't have a backup H140 with which I could do a dump that also worked on my first H140. So I could reverse everything and start from scratch.But now I'm booting from ROM. That's not only faster but I think I can bypass the having to re-format etc. with every update. Because now I just update the flash and ROM immediately after (as in before reboot) the Rockbox update and should be fine with subsequent reboots - no more checksum errors as I don't boot from disk anymore.At least that's what I'm thinking and hoping. :-)
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