Is there a limit of max. number of files in external hard drive folder?

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Published on 2012-07-07T14:39:48Z Indexed on 2012/07/07 15:18 UTC
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I have a FAT32 external hard drive where I keep backups downloaded from webserver. I have a directory with 30 subdirectories. One of the subdirectories contains 21381 files and when I try to copy more files into this directory I get 0x80070052 error. However,it's possible to copy one more file in this directory (only one) if I make it's name shorter (8 characters instead of 22 as it's original name).

How do I solve this problem? Now I can not synchronize external hard disk files with server files which is very important for me.

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