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scotg

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Hi,

Does anyone know what the limit is on how much media the My Pogoplug can handle? I have about 19,600 songs. I put about 5 songs on one of my drives attached to the PogoPlug. The songs played fine. I copied all of my songs and the media player can see the artists and albums but can't play the songs so there has to be a limit. I just don't know what it is. Thanks.

Scot

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October 26, 2010 6:05 PM updated: October 26, 2010 6:10 PM

Hello,

There is no limit within the Pogoplug per se, but if the harddrive runs out of space(95% usage or so) you will probably begin to notice a few issues.

There is a known issue with having many files in one directory. We recommend not having more than about 5,000 files in one directory. Definitely do not go over 16,384 files in a single directory without any subdirs. That will cause performance problems and general failures. If you've placed all 19,000+ songs in one place, no subdirectories separating them all, problems will occur.

Note that separating the files in sub-directories is okay, e.g:

-My_JustinBieber_Songs
-->Songs_1_thru_3000
-->Songs_3001_thru_6000
-->Songs_6001_thru_9000
etc.

The only limit to the Pogoplug is your imagination... and C skills... and linux skills. ^_^ h\t\tp://download.pogoplug.com/opensource/pogoplug-gcc.tar.bz2

October 26, 2010 6:54 PM

Thanks for the response. Great! That gives me something to go on. I have everything broken up into directories. I have music category, then I have the band and underneath each band, I have the albums and then the songs. You spoke about 5,00 files in one directory. Does that include subdirectories? The problem could be too many subdirectories? I will have to check my numbers. I know when I tested a small number of songs, I had no problem. I will have to play with it.

October 27, 2010 2:00 PM

Hi,

I did my own research and here is what I found out. I have 4 directories labeled Christmas, Jazz, Comedy and Rock. Under each one of these directories there are more sub-directories with the group name and underneath that are the directories with the album name and then songs. I looked at the total count for each of the main directories. Here they are: Christmas has 860 files and 178 folders or subdirs, Jazz has 2,784 files with 291 folders, Comedy has 177 files with 13 folders and last Rock has 22,669 files with 3,511 folders. I deleted the Rock folder and my music played without a problem. It looks like I have to break up my Rock folder into other Rock folders in order to get this to work. I am not sure but I think folders count in this but it gives me something to go on to get this to work. I hope this helps others who have a large music collection. It is not perfect but it works. The hardest part is figuring out the do's and don'ts. This is where you either investigate which takes lots of time or get the help of the people that support the product which is what I received here. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I am relieved that I got it to work.

April 17, 2011 8:55 AM

Hi,
I am new to Pogoplug and have found some things that I like, and few that are pretty annoying. The limitation described above is one of the major annoyance factors.

Right now, I have a relatively simple directory structure that looks like this:
Root Directory
-User1
--Documents
--Music
---Artist1
----Album1
----Album2

Each subdirectory of artist and album has a relatively few number of files that is well below the limit described above. However, the Music directory ends up exceeding this limit.

My issue is that I appear to be able to upload files to the drive. However, I cannot do anything else.
If I use 'download' in the web interface, it doesn't appear to do anything. The file does not exist on my local computer in anyplace that would make sense. Using Google Desktop, it doesn't show up anywhere.

If I use the drive application to copy the file to my computer, I get Error 0x80070057 indicating a parameter is incorrect.

Is anyone else having this issue? Have you resolved it?
Or is there a work around?

Just curious.
Thanks.

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