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MBP reading SD Card and Ext Hard Drive space wrong

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Jakerz

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Sep 2, 2010
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I noticed yesterday that my MBP is reading the space on my SD Card and my External Hard Drive wrong.

If I delete something off either the SDC or EHD, the space that should become available by doing that isn't made available.

For example... My 4GB SD Card has 600MB available, I deleted a 1GB movie that was on it but that 1GB of space is not being made available. When I try adding a file larger than the 600MB, I get a pop up that says the require space is not available.


I reformatted the drives thinking that was the problem but it obviously wasn't because it didn't fix it. Reformatting the drives are the only way to get the space back.

Help...
 
Jakerz said:
I noticed yesterday that my MBP is reading the space on my SD Card and my External Hard Drive wrong.

If I delete something off either the SDC or EHD, the space that should become available by doing that isn't made available.

For example... My 4GB SD Card has 600MB available, I deleted a 1GB movie that was on it but that 1GB of space is not being made available. When I try adding a file larger than the 600MB, I get a pop up that says the require space is not available.


I reformatted the drives thinking that was the problem but it obviously wasn't because it didn't fix it. Reformatting the drives are the only way to get the space back.

Help...
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You are deleting the item from trash. Not just moving it to the trash?
 
Jakerz said:
It disappears from the SD Card Finder window but it doesn't go to the Trash.
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And if you empty the trash anyway? It might be stored in /Volumes/SDCARD/.Trash/ but should show up in the main trash too.
 
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