"Dir Buffer is Full" Error on iPod w/240G HD

[AvatharV]

I have an iPod 5.5 with a new 240G hard drive running Rockbox 3.8.1.  I have all of my music under the root folder in a folder called Music in a tree /Music/%Artist%/%Album%/%Track% - %Title%.  I get the "Dir Buffer is Full" error.

I have already gone into Settings/System/Limits and maxed everything out.  I think it is set to 10k & 32k in the playlist, but I am literally putting 40k+ songs on my iPod now.

Besides changing this setting (which I have done), or deleting files, what other options do I have?  Is there a better folder arrangement that will get around this?

Thanks.

Also.. now I am just getting a white screen with "Data abort at 0002BFE8 (0).. which is worse.. because it is not even letting me get to SOME of my music.

[Lear]

I have an iPod 5.5 with a new 240G hard drive running Rockbox 3.8.1.  I have all of my music under the root folder in a folder called Music in a tree /Music/%Artist%/%Album%/%Track% - %Title%.  I get the "Dir Buffer is Full" error.

When do you get the "Dir Buffer is Full" message? File browser? If so, how many entries are there in that folder? Database viewer? If so, where in the viewer?

Also, I guess you have restarted Rockbox at least once since changing the setting... ("Properly" restarted, so that the settings has if fact been saved.)

[AvatharV]

In my Music folder I have 4826 folders (including the subfolders) & 23023 files (including album art).  This is not my entire collection.. this is only the point that stopped syncing (after 9 hours), so there will still be more folders & files.  It seems to make it through (displays) about 3250 directories (including subdirectories) & roughly 16,221 files.

It displays the error as soon as I enter my Music folder thru the file browser, which is in the root (R:\Music).

I have rebooted my iPod several times.. and yeah.. I noticed that it hadn't saved the setting prior.

I haven't used the database method before, because it takes a fair amount of time to initialize on a library this size, but I am thinking I am going to run into a similar issue there.

I am open to any suggestions and I am willing to beta test any version to get around this.

[Llorean]

The "dir buffer" only refers to how many files in a single list. So you wouldn't count files contained within subfolders, etc. You just want the "dir buffer" setting to be slightly larger than the longest list of files you're going to see at one level.

You said the setting hasn't been saved. You need to resolve that first by properly shutting down and turning it back on after setting the value. Then you should attempt to organize your files in such a way that it's not trying to list more than 10,000 of them in a single list.