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  1. blackxacto

    Why is a folder ghosted on my 256GB usb thumb drive?

    I partitioned a 256GB thumb drive. 13GB & the remaining. One stores Mojave installation, the other copy of my Music folder. When I finished copying the Music folder which is only 90GB, it appears untouchable or ghosted. Not sure what is correct term. Why did this happen?
  2. B

    Flash stick not working. Any ideas?

    Hey, My usb flash stick has stopped working. I was wondering if you guys have any ideas how to get it mounted again. It began when I tried to delete an item from it. My comp showed an error and wouldn't move the file to trash. In frustration I pulled out the usb drive. Now it won't mount. When...
  3. W

    Thumb drive and cloud

    I use an iMac Core i5 2.9 GHz running MacOS Sierra. Other family members use a MacBook Pro with a Core i5 also running Sierra. We frequently swap files between them using thumb drives. 99.99% of the time, this is a simple and reliable means of temporary transfer and storage. We usually swap...
  4. Mr West

    MBP 2017 Unexplained slow write speeds to flash drives

    Hey guys Can anyone help me with the problem I'm currently facing: My Macbook Pro (2017) writes extremely slow to USB flash drives. I have tried 3 different USB 3.0 flash drives (only one encrypted) and they all drop down to less than 30mb/s. However using the same flash drives on a Surface...
  5. macworksgreat

    iMovie on my iMac 5k will not move a project to thumb drive

    I have a project in my iMovie - a 60 minute video of a wedding my wife took on her iPhone. Anyway I set it to music, etc and after when I try to move the finished project to a thumb drive in order to give it to the bride..It will copy have of it on the thumb drive then I get an error message...