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Have a workaround for the 1,000 file limit in a directory on windows mobile 5?

I need to download more than 1,000 files into a windows mobile 5 directory located on the storage card. If i copy the files onto the storage card via my desktop there is no problem. But when i try to download the files from the handheld device I get a disk full error, even though there is plenty of room due to the 1,000 file limit.

Has anyone run into this and found a workaround? I'm going to try zipping all of the files then decompressing on the device but not sure that this will work.

+2  A: 

Split it into multiple directories?

ceejayoz  2009-12-24 20:35:24
Normally i would say, duh. But I don't have that option. Right now we're limited to putting the files on flash cards then distributing them to about 100 employees. We're trying to get it to the point where users can just run a program that will download all of the files into the images directory on their handheld. We're not able to change the 3rd party program that relies on this images directory.
nateday76  2009-12-24 20:53:20
Does the images directory allow subfolders? If I were you, I'd consider the Windows Mobile operating system an even less changeable third-party program...
ceejayoz  2009-12-24 20:56:33
I am not disagreeing with that at all. I'll check out the subdirectories option.
nateday76  2009-12-24 21:05:49
+1  A: 

Create more directories and put less than 1000 files in each.

recursive  2009-12-24 20:35:52

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