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Plug in the drive -go to my computer and find it right click and go properties - look for folder options -choose show hidden folders -- you will probably find a folder called( trash) delete it and you should get your space back
Try reformatting it:
**THIS WILL DELETE ALL THE DATA ON THE DRIVE**
1. Open Finder 2. Applications 3. On the left column, you should see your thumb drive. Click on it. 4. Click on the "Erase" tab near the top 5. For "Format:" select "FAT32" 6. Click on the "Erase..." button
Try reformatting it:
**THIS WILL DELETE ALL THE DATA ON THE DRIVE**
1. Open Finder 2. Applications
3. On the left column, you should see your thumb drive. Click on it. 4. Click on the "Erase" tab near the top 5. For "Format:" select "FAT32" 6. Click on the "Erase..." button
right click my computer got manage>disk management. see if it shows up at the bottom. if so make sure it has a drive letter and is formatted and is active. otherwise it might be a bad thumb drive
I had the same problem once upon a time with a PNY CF card about 4years ago after I photographed an entire football game for an article Iwas doing. Everything I did kept telling me that the card was corruptedand I never could retrieve the photos. Someone told me to use a better card so I have never used a PNY cardagain and consequently have never had the problem again. Stay with SanDisk Extreme or whatever high end card you can find and you'll be much happier.
I know this is the "Close-the-barn-door" approach to not losing thehorses after they have already escaped but I have a possible solutionto rescuing your photos trapped on the card if nothing else works. Lookfor a card retrieval program on the internet. There are free ones andthere are pay ones. Free is worth nothing and the others are worth morebut start with free if you can find one. The one I used was atcardrecovery.com (which wasn't free) and supposedly can even pull photosfrom damaged cards as well. I accidentally formatted a card beforegetting the photos off and the program retrieved all of those plus manyothers that were previuosly on it, all 39,000 of them, and it was onlya 4 GB card on a 8 MB camera! I think it was around $60 for the pay version but it justdepends on how valuable your photos are to you on that card. If yourinterested here's the link:
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