Cannot copy anything to the USB thumb drive

[Eutimio]

Hi everybody,

I work with a Macbook running Leopard and in the last days everytime I try to copy something to my USB thumb drive I get the message "The item - cannot be copied because there is not enough free space". My trash can is totally empty so I know that is not the problem. If I attach the USB thumb drive to a PC, I can add documents without any problem so I also know that the USB drive is working correctly. Can anyone please give me some advice on what to do ???

Thanks,

Eutimio.

 

[dvince2]

Check to see what the usb stick is formatted as. Windows can read and write to NTFS, while OS X can only read.
Make sure it is formatted as FAT32.

To do this, when the drive is mounted, open up disk utility (Applications/Utilities/), and then click on the USB drive.

(note that if your format the drive, you will erase everything off of it, so make a backup)

 

[Eutimio]

Thanks a lot dvince2.... I checked the USB format and says FAT16...I guess I need to format it as FAT32 as you said..I am gonna format it now....Thanks again...I aprecciate your time...

Eutimio