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  • Questions about electronic devices, media players, cell phones or smart phones are off-topic (except when they interface with a computer). See On Topic.
    – DavidPostill ♦
    Commented May 26, 2015 at 16:43
  • Besides not using the functionality of those devices you know corrupt the filesystem of a FAT32 formatted disk, which likely means, they more then likely don't actually support FAT32 in the first place you don't have a lot of options.
    – Ramhound
    Commented May 26, 2015 at 16:46
  • Off topic: I found no closer match on StackExchange than superuser. But I'm open to recommendations.
    – Camille Goudeseune
    Commented May 26, 2015 at 16:53
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    With a large subsample of backup files or a large number of copies of a single duplicated file: Try renaming all the files with short sequential numbers; Try clearing the ID3 tags on all the files. You can use a tool like mp3tag to batch the whole thing pretty easily. This is just as a test: you can eliminate illegal characters and/or uncaught exceptions based on tags/filenames in the firmware as a cause.
    – Yorik
    Commented May 26, 2015 at 21:13
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    Have you tried ones with a hardware switch? You already mentioned it, without the result. It may fail to run as the device couldn't write its temp data but may NOT fail. You can still buy them for inexpensive price. eg. ebay.com/bhp/write-protect
    – Scott Rhee
    Commented May 28, 2015 at 0:44