And you can bet that the majority of the handout flash drives you get at
Conferences, for speaker gifts, or on other occasions (the ones that
typically have someones name/logo on them?) are all TLC drives.

One thing the article fails to mention, and this is a MAJOR problem with
younger users is what you do with 'stuff' on the flash drives when you're
done with it.

Those of us that know about microfilm =) recall the days of 'mix tapes' and
burning a cassette (yes, you can think of it as an advanced form of
microfilm...) for that someone special with music you wanted to share with
them.  In the years following mix tapes, mix CDs became a bit more common
method of sneaker-netting music to someone special... and in both of these
cases, the media would hang around in its original form until it got passed
along or tossed in the trash, a sad day indeed.

More recently, the practice has been to burn content to flash drives and
pass them back and forth, then copy the content onto a hard drive and give
it back... and as long as the content is just copied and left on the flash
drive, NO PROBLEM! So, you ask... where IS IT a problem?

If you mount a flash drive, copy the content off and then move the content
from the drive to the trash... and then fail to EMPTY the trash before
removing the drive.  Here's the way I understand the mechanics of what
happens.  When you 'move' content from a device (flash or other attached
drive) to the trash, it doesn't REALLY "move", it just puts a pointer to the
content in the trash and leaves the content where it was.  Once you EMPTY
the trash can, THEN the system physically deletes the content from the
storage source.  

Here are the two common scenarios:

1) You drag content from the flash drive to trash, you empty trash, system
deletes content, you remove the flash drive and the space becomes usable on
the again.  

2) You drag content from the flash drive to trash, you DON'T empty trash,
you remove the flash drive, the system is unable to delete the content and
the space on the flash drive is shown as unavailable.  

There is a process you can follow to recover space on the flash drive once
this occurs, but it's sort of involved and seems like a pain in the
patoot... but the other option is discard the drive and start over.
http://bit.ly/9PB1Rm 

Word to the wise... if you copy music, videos, photos or other content to a
flash drive for a family member or friend, tell them DON'T DELETE IT WHEN
YOU'RE DONE with it, unless you're sure they know how to properly delete it.

Larry
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