After deleting the MTABLE.SYS I get the same DB from the rebuild.
By moving all files into the MUSIC\ folder and deleting all nested folders the DB takes about 800 files more (~6000 total). Finding a song in that mess is nearly impossible but it was a nice experiment to confirm what’s been said.
This means that the number of files the Fuze can put into the DB depends on the length of the file path names. You can fit only so many filenames into a limited number of bytes (MTABLE.SYS is always of size 1862468 bytes). Why does the size have to be fixed?? Why can’t you (the FW) simply keep writing to the file until all songs are inside the DB (or you run out of disk space)?
Now there’s hoping that the devs are aware of this problem and will increase the limit to accomodate all those files in the DB, or make the DB grow as necessary.
