My goodness Bob,
That makes so much sense and it is not a dumb question.
I cannot recall, but I 'll bet that is exactly what I have have done (or not done) !!!!
I will check that out.


On 13/08/2006, at 12:22 AM, Robert Howells wrote:


On 12 Aug 2006, at 10:52 PM, Stephen Chape wrote:

Hi folks,

About 3 months ago I purchased an Imation 256MB thumb drive.
I use it to take photo files to the pharmacy to get prints.
Each time I return home I trash the files on the thumb drive.
Each I go to get prints done, the drive shows all the previous files that I trashed, plus the new ones I have just added.

It just happened again.
I copied one photo file (for my wife's passport) to any apparently empty thumb drive. I get to the pharmacy and It takes me a while to find the file I want amongst all these others.

I get home and plug it into my eMac and it shows just that one file on the drive.

What the ??
Can anyone please enlighten me ?

Silly question but ...... you did empty your trash while the thumb drive was still connected
didn't you ! ?

IF NOT , and you have emptied the trash with thumb drive disconnected ,
you will now need to erase & reformat the Thumb Drive to clear them..

At least , that's my best effort

Bob




Regards,
Stephen Chape


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Regards,
Stephen Chape