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<blockquote data-quote="rcltrh" data-source="post: 283834" data-attributes="member: 15752"><p>The problem is that flash drives are serial devices which store data in long serial chains. When you delete something, it opens up a "hole" that can hold a new file as long as it is the same size or smaller than the one you deleted. As you add and delete things, over time the "holes" in the chain get too small for any one thing to fit back into, and although technically the space is "free", nothing can fit into it. What you do to fix this is copy the entire jump drive into a folder on your desktop/laptop, totally erase the jump drive, then copy it all back onto the jump drive from your desktop/laptop. The copying process will put things back into one long chain again and the process will be reset, to recur again down the road at a later time. This is known as "fragmentation" much like on Windows computers where you "defragment" to put everything back in order again. Hard drives can handle fragmented files because their file allocation table has room to store all the different "holes" where a file has been put. However, jump drives cannot hold that much fat information, so they only allow serial sequential file storage. The only real defrag you can do is by copying, deleting, and copying back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rcltrh, post: 283834, member: 15752"] The problem is that flash drives are serial devices which store data in long serial chains. When you delete something, it opens up a "hole" that can hold a new file as long as it is the same size or smaller than the one you deleted. As you add and delete things, over time the "holes" in the chain get too small for any one thing to fit back into, and although technically the space is "free", nothing can fit into it. What you do to fix this is copy the entire jump drive into a folder on your desktop/laptop, totally erase the jump drive, then copy it all back onto the jump drive from your desktop/laptop. The copying process will put things back into one long chain again and the process will be reset, to recur again down the road at a later time. This is known as "fragmentation" much like on Windows computers where you "defragment" to put everything back in order again. Hard drives can handle fragmented files because their file allocation table has room to store all the different "holes" where a file has been put. However, jump drives cannot hold that much fat information, so they only allow serial sequential file storage. The only real defrag you can do is by copying, deleting, and copying back. [/QUOTE]
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