Path Too Deep error

[smr8705]

I installed rockbox on my Gigabeat F40 and everything went fine, but now when I try to put music on it I keep getting an error saying "the path is too deep". What does that mean? I've never heard that before.

[Llorean]

How "deep" a path is is basically how many folder levels there are.

C:\Blah\Something\> is two deep.
C:\Blah\Somethin\Foo\Bar\> is four deep, and so on.

How many folders deep are the files on your Gigabeat?

[saratoga]

I'm not certain, but FAT may have a 256 character limit for a file path.  Its been forever since i looked at it though.

[smr8705]

I have my music sorted as H:\Music\Genre\Artist\Album

[Llorean]

And how many characters is the longest one. And it's for all files, not just music.

[smr8705]

My file names aren't that long. I decided to try adding music from Ubuntu but I still got an error.
It said I/O Error when it got to this file:
E:\Music\Comedy\Dane Cook\Retaliation\Disc 1\09-Car Alarm.mp3

[smr8705]

I tried adding music again and after 2.10 GB I get one of two errors:
cyclic redundancy or Invalid MS-DOS function
It will absolutely not let me add anything once it gets to 2.10 GB

[Llorean]

Have you tried scanning your disk for errors?

It sounds like it's more or less a hardware problem of some sort.

[smr8705]

I figured out the problem. There were some .SAT files that I deleted in Windows Explorer and they still showed up in the original firmware. I formatted in Windows Media Player, reinstalled Rockbox, and everything is fine so far. Thanks.