Fuhgeddaboudit Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 I had bought a 8Gb USB flashdrive about 4 months ago, and I used it a few times and it had said 8 GB(little less because of whatever those reasons are) for awhile. Today I went to go delete a few things from it and add more shit to it, and it said, "cannot add anything because the file is too large". It's only about 700KB So I checked on my mac and it said I have about 435 KB leftover, but nothing is even in the flash drive anymore? Is it corrupted or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuhgeddaboudit Posted September 25, 2012 Author Share Posted September 25, 2012 Nevermind - I learned something new today. My girlfriend used my USB flash drive to transfer her old songs to her new iMac when she used it. Little did I know, when you delete the files off of a flash drive on a Mac, you also have to empty the trash, which I just did on my computer today. Weird as hell, but I got my 7.61 GBs back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 My first question was going to be whether or not it was FAT32 formatted. My second would have been whether you emptied the trash, if it was still OSX Journaled formatted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Nevermind - I learned something new today. My girlfriend used my USB flash drive to transfer her old songs to her new iMac when she used it. Little did I know, when you delete the files off of a flash drive on a Mac, you also have to empty the trash, which I just did on my computer today. Weird as hell, but I got my 7.61 GBs back. Mac puts a hidden file labeled ".trashes" that gets "held" until you empty the trash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphinity 2.0 Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Yep, you gotta delete out of trash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlairBettsBlocksEverything Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 this same shit just happened to my flashdrive too lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuhgeddaboudit Posted September 26, 2012 Author Share Posted September 26, 2012 LOL, I didn't realize it was all different with the Mac. Unless that happens with Windows too? I got worried because I didn't really want to go buy another Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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