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Long mp3 path/filename on SD card temporarily kills 765T

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To recreate: in your mp3 directory of your SD card, put an mp3 file that between the directory path and filename is longer than (I'm guessing around) 255 characters (I have my music folders arranged several subdirectories deep, and filenames including artist, album, year, title, etc.). Put the SD card in your nuvi 765T. Turn on nuvi 765T. Around the "updating maps" point, the unit just goes black, and it won't turn back on.

The only way to get it back on is to remove the SD card, and even then you need to wait about 10 minutes.

This would be in Garmin's best interest to fix. I had had a prior unit's battery fail and this looked very similar, and I nearly sent it back under warranty... I wonder how many units they've replaced assuming the unit was toast.

Many operating systems don't allow filename + path name > 255 characters. However, I don't know internally if things like the name of the SD card count, or some internal directory it may be mounted under. I think a directory + file of 200 characters or less under the mp3 directory would be safe but I haven't refined it exactly.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 14 years ago
    More detail, don't know if it matters

    This was on a 16GB Kingston SDHC SD4/16GB card. I even totally emptied the card except for one mp3 file that causes the problem. If I have no files as described in the problem, I can actually fill the card (I tend to encode at 320) and it seems to work totally fine, with some 1500 mp3 files on it. It took several hours to fill, even with an external USB 2.0 reader, but, aside from mp3 "Browse" being grayed out for maybe 30-45 seconds, it works great.:)