On Jan 31, 2012, at 10:28 , Lee Larson wrote: > A friend asked me the following: > >> My son is using an old powerbook G4 with a 60 GB hard drive and 2 GB of ram, >> running OS 10.4. When he tries to move a file from the desktop to a flash >> drive, he gets a message that says "not enough free space". But if he opens >> the file and uses "save as" he can save it to the same flash drive. I told >> him to empty the trash while the flash drive was inserted. That hasn't >> solved the problem. > > I don’t have an answer. Any ideas?
Does the drive have multiple partitions [1], so he might be moving it to the wrong one and save-as'ing to the right one? Hard to believe, but it might happen. Bill [1] one might be a floppy-sized one (1.44MB) for Windows security software
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