[Getting "Unable to create file or directory" message]

I had no idea that there was a limit if 64K directory entries.  I assumed that a long directory could hold as many as needed (I know that some versions of DOS/FAT required a fixed-size root directory, but I didn't realize there was a limit on non-root directories).  I suspect it goes back to having used an uint_16 to count the number of files.

I now have the files restoring to an NTFS drive, and it seems to be working.  Based on the 64K limit, the number of 8.3 and LFN entries for the number of files it WAS able to recover when I attempted to use a FAT32 drive seems to add up.

As for the size of the drive, I don't think there was anywhere near 2 TB ON the original drive, and I have four 320GB drives to recover them to.  They may very well even fit on one.

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction!

[Getting "Unable to create file or directory" message]

I'm trying to recover a BUNCH of jpgs/videos from an NTFS external drive (2TB USB)

I ran Recuva with deep scan enabled, and after about 65 hours, it said it found 206,000 files.  I plugged in a 250 GB FAT32 drive (empty) and started copying.

It said there were 160,000 that were "not recovered", and the "Reason" for each was "The directory or file cannot be created"

All of the files had a state of "Excellent", with no overwritten clusters.  Most had lost their folder (they came back as "F:\?\"), and I told Recuva to rename if it ran into duplicated names.

I tried several times, with slightly different results each time, but it's getting about 4.7 GB / 27,000 recovered (once, it managed 25 GB / 35,000).  The last shot at recovery ran 46 hours, so it apparently took a while each time it failed.

The lifeboat drive (G:) is nowhere near full, and I'm restoring them into "G:\From Unknown Folder\".  The files it couldn't recover ranged in size from 20 BYTES (easily fitting in a cluster) to 270 MB (videos).

What could be causing the "The Directory or file cannot be created" message?  Do I need to try another lifeboat drive formatted as NTFS?

[CCleaner 5.89 no crfl in Save to Text [(mostly) fixed in 5.90]]

Does 5.90 have a release date?  I have thousands of duplicated files to sift through (I'll run the list through Excel), and the duplicate finder is useless to me now.

Just to make sure the developers have really fixed it -- are they also aware that it was outputting two-byte characters (not only was it missing delimiters, it wasn't in straight ASCII -- it looks like unicode)?