Hello
By chance came across this old message.
I remember we had similar indications in the past. (I even wrote a user
advice to the FAQs and manual that copying files to the root directory
should be better avoided.)
However, I have no positive proof or quantification when the problem
happens. Besides that I think that we experienced it a few times (however,
another explanation is possible, too), I recall just one very vague message
from David Fedor that it might be so but actually nobody from Palm cared.
Is this bug described somewhere? D.F. used a strange formulation that what
causes the problem might many files in root and maybe long file names and
(because they probably don't know) people should rather work in subfolders.
Best regards,
Jan Slodicka
----- Original Message -----
From: "joe bloggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: OS 5.4
> Thanks again.
>
> The reason I am interested in OS 5.4 is because it has a patch for a bug
> that is causing me grief. The specific bug prevents the VFS from
> enumerating the root directory of an memory card if the root directory
> contains more than 7 or so files with long file names (long meaning that
> they do not conform to the 8.3 file name convention). I have investigated
a
> variety of approaches to resolving this issue but as far as I have been
able
> to determine, the only viable solution is get a hold of OS 5.4. Note that
> the application I am writing must access files in the root directory of
the
> memory card. These files cannot be located in a subdirectory of the card.
>
> Have you ever come across this problem and if so do you know of any
> solutions?
>
> Cheers,
> Joe
>
>
> "Ben Combee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > At 02:45 PM 8/23/2004, you wrote:
> > >Thanks for that.
> > >
> > >So if I am holding out for a 5.4 update for the Treo 600 I should
contact
> > >palmOne and find out what there plans are for releasing updates for the
> > >device?
> >
> > Exactly. So far, PalmOne hasn't released any version updates, but they
> > have done feature updates keeping the same OS version. PalmSource does
> NOT
> > release updates for licensee devices.
> >
> >
> > -- Ben Combee, DTS technical lead, PalmSource, Inc.
> > "Combee on Palm OS" weblog: http://palmos.combee.net/
> > Palm OS Dev Fourm Archives: http://news.palmos.com/read/all_forums/
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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