Was browsing FAT volumes ever dropped/deprecated?

[Silversleeves]

I had it happen just last night that while I could browse a single folder (with the option set to Browse from View, or however it's phrased) on a FAT-16 formatted smart-card mounted USB via a flash-drive style reader, clicking on the disk at its drive letter (M:), navigating or copying between folders on the volume did not work.

I have two screenshots which I intend to keep should Pierre request them. They are of two XnView browser windows, comparing the view of the root folder of one USB thumb drive (a FAT32 filesystem half the capacity of the aforementioned) and this one before I took the trouble to download, reformat the card, then copy back to the disk, the directories and other items which were on it: a total of 526 MB, according to both Windows Explorer and Power ISO. To my way of thinking and still, frankly, limited experience of Windows, why such a well-populated disk should display as empty in the screenshot might be explained as either a bad FAT (table file) on the FAT volume, or that Pierre has discontinued FAT support in the 1.97.4 version. I doubt very much it's the latter, but I'd like to know for sure, for future reference.

BZT

[xnview]

Could you send me a screenshot?