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Topic: Thumb drives "full" (not) |
Ben Elder
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La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 5 Jul 2009 5:22 pm |
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I have several thumb drives I use for eBay, and Forum jpegs. They are different brands and range from 1-4GB. Even though they each show only a few hundred MB of capacity used, still when I try to save another pic, I get a message saying the drive is full. This happens both on Macs at home and PCs at work. This can't be hidden info like metadata. What's going on with the other 50-90% of alleged capacity?
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Cal Sharp
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the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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John Cipriano
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San Francisco
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Posted 6 Jul 2009 1:27 pm
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It could be what Cal is saying, just that there are some deleted files hanging around.
I do that a lot...eject the drive forgetting to empty the trash, and then it's out of sight out of mind.
It could also be drive corruption. Formatting the drive might help if you haven't tried already. You will probably want to format it as FAT32, which on the Mac is called something like MS-DOS/FAT I think. |
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Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 6 Jul 2009 3:37 pm
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Ben;
I had something like that happen to one of my thumbdrives. I use it to hold mp3 files and it was running out of space before it should have. I had it formatted as FAT32, as is standard for such devices. Then, I remembered a fact from my Windows 95 days. That fact is that only 512 files and descriptions can exist in the root directory on a FAT16, or FAT32 formatted drive. Since each audio file also contained a description in its meta data, that limit became 250 songs in root directory. It did not matter how little or much disk space they occupied.
The solution was to create a new folder on that drive and move the all of the mp3 files into it. I was then able to add as many files as possible, until the actual capacity, minus cluster size slack, was reached.
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