Weird Log and Transfer warning

So I'm teaching a class and the students have their AVCHD camcorders connected and we're ingesting using Log and Transfer. All the clips appear in the window and it's working fine. But every few minutes, all the students get a warning dialogue that says:
".fn contains unsupported material or has an invalid directory structure. Please choose a folder whose directory structure matches supported media."
All they have to do is dismiss the warning and keep working. But then it will come up again in a few minutes.
Anyone know what this means?
Thanks very much.

I'd try and copy the Hard disk contents to the computer before log and transfer.  There may be some material on the camera hard disk that's not part of what log and transfer is looking for and when log and transfer sees those elements, it gives you that warning.  Do you want to open the camera's hard disk on the mac describe the folder structure.  It's possible you need to navigate to the appropriate folder and mount that in the log and transfer window, not the entire camera hard drive.

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