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Old 17-11-2008, 03:38 PM
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I erase data off USB/SD cards, but it's still there?
Lately I've been having this problem (in fact I've had it for a while now, and never bothered to fix it) where I put something on any form of USB drive or SD Card (such a micro SD card from my phone connected via USB) and if I delet it later, the file itself is gone, but when I check 'Get Info' the space is still taken (eg a 400MB file is added, 600MB remaining. Delete the 400MB file, still 600MB remaining). For USB drives I usually fix this by reformatting the drive through Disk Utility which helps, but MicroSD cards take a while to transfer 2GBs and I'm tired of always reformatting.

Anyone know why this is happening?
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Old 17-11-2008, 03:41 PM
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empty the trash with the device plugged in.
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Old 17-11-2008, 03:47 PM
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And if you do that, be careful that you don't delete (empty) anything already in the Trash from the Mac.

I deleted some stuff off my USB and it was plugged into my gf's MBA.
I emptied Trash. Boom. Deleted her stuff too (in her MBA Trash). She was not happy.
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Old 17-11-2008, 04:02 PM
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Emptying the trash seemed to do it. Strange ithe trash had to be emptied though =/

Much thanks for the help guys
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Old 17-11-2008, 04:15 PM
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And if you do that, be careful that you don't delete (empty) anything already in the Trash from the Mac.

I deleted some stuff off my USB and it was plugged into my gf's MBA.
I emptied Trash. Boom. Deleted her stuff too (in her MBA Trash). She was not happy.
Huh, why would she have stuff she didn't want deleted sitting in the trash?
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Old 17-11-2008, 04:21 PM
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Yeah. Crazy huh?

She deletes stuff but it's like a temporary storage area. Actually she just hoards stuff there 'just in case' she needs to refer to them. I went out and bought her a HDD for Time Machine.
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