8GB USB Flashdrive

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

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?

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

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.

[Phil]

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.

[Pete]

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.

[Morphinity 2.0]

Yep, you gotta delete out of trash.

[BlairBettsBlocksEverything]

this same shit just happened to my flashdrive too lol

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

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