Problems with using Flash drives
Hey,
I'm a new Mac user and I'm experiencing some weird behavior when working with flash drives on the Mac OS.
Whenever I plug a Flash drive into the USB slot, erase it and try to copy some new files into it - I get a "no free space available" error message.
After using the disk utility to format the drive (using "Dos - FAT") - It works fine.
It happened to me several times with several different times.
Why do I have to format the drive? Will I need to reformat it whenever I try copying new files?
I've also got a flash drive that you can stuck a SD card into. The behavior was the same. If I format it using the disk utility - won't it stop working with my camera?
Thanks.
I'm a new Mac user and I'm experiencing some weird behavior when working with flash drives on the Mac OS.
Whenever I plug a Flash drive into the USB slot, erase it and try to copy some new files into it - I get a "no free space available" error message.
After using the disk utility to format the drive (using "Dos - FAT") - It works fine.
It happened to me several times with several different times.
Why do I have to format the drive? Will I need to reformat it whenever I try copying new files?
I've also got a flash drive that you can stuck a SD card into. The behavior was the same. If I format it using the disk utility - won't it stop working with my camera?
Thanks.
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Hey,
I'm a new Mac user and I'm experiencing some weird behavior when working with flash drives on the Mac OS.
Whenever I plug a Flash drive into the USB slot, erase it and try to copy some new files into it - I get a "no free space available" error message.
After using the disk utility to format the drive (using "Dos - FAT") - It works fine.
It happened to me several times with several different times.
Why do I have to format the drive? Will I need to reformat it whenever I try copying new files?
I've also got a flash drive that you can stuck a SD card into. The behavior was the same. If I format it using the disk utility - won't it stop working with my camera?
Thanks.
After you delete the files on the flash drive, empty the trash. Then check the flash drive. Let me know if that works. An AI member suggested that to me when I had the same problem, and it WORKED for me.
After you delete the files on the flash drive, empty the trash. Then check the flash drive. Let me know if that works. An AI member suggested that to me when I had the same problem, and it WORKED for me.
It's WORKING! Great That's a weird behavior for a Windows user, but a cool one none the least
Thanks!!
Dave
The software that came on it was somesort of download helper and you could download certain programs and they would reside on the drive. It was stupid and all it did was take up valuable space that I could be using for something much better, like text files about nothing.
Goodbye U3 software. Hello to space and the ability to TRULY delete files and anything else. Instead of being some sort of user assisting device, it became a typical flash drive.