My usb thumb drives won't reclaim space from deleted files (in OS X) [more inside]
posted on May 9, 2007 - 6 answers

Need help with managing volume policy permissions for removable devices in WinXP. [more inside]
posted on Aug 23, 2006 - 1 answers

I've lost the cap to my thumb drive. a) Does it matter? b) If so, where do I get a replacement? [more inside]
posted on Aug 4, 2006 - 13 answers

I just bought a cheap 256mb flash drive at the university bookstore. It has some bizarre formatting setup where it appears on my iBook (10.4) as two drives, one 1.44 mb, one 244.2 mb. Apparently there are some security features (a .pdf and .exe file were included, the latter of which is obviously no use to me) that are built in as well. [more inside]
posted on Jun 4, 2006 - 9 answers

Is there anyway I can still access the files on it? If that's not possible, can the drive be still made usable, by reformatting it in some fashion? Or will I just have to get a new one and dumb this one into the garbage can?
posted on Jun 3, 2006 - 7 answers

There should only be 5 mb of data on my 1 gig usb drive, but it says there's 493 mb used up. what's going on? [more inside]
posted on May 5, 2006 - 15 answers

I'd like to password protect the contents of a USB thumbdrive that will be accessed from an OS X and Windows platform. [more inside]
posted on Dec 7, 2005 - 9 answers

What useful programs/utilities can I put on a thumbdrive? [more inside]
posted on Nov 14, 2005 - 14 answers

Based on excellent advice from this thread, I settled on a Creative Muvo 1 gig mp3 player. I've been happily adding tracks, but when I hit the 532 mb mark, it won't let me add anything else. Everything in there so far are mp3s with a handful of wmas, and I'm stumped as to why I can't have a gig of files on a gig drive. Ideas?
posted on May 26, 2005 - 10 answers

Does anyone know a simple (and free) method of password-protecting my USB thumbdrive?
posted on May 17, 2005 - 14 answers

I have in mind a device: it is portable (battery-powered); you plug pen/jump/thumb drive 'A' into it, and then plug pen drive 'B' into it. Press a button, and 'A' is mirrored to 'B'. Does this device exist?
posted on Mar 24, 2005 - 4 answers

Having had any chance of a steady internet connection from home lost for the time being, is there a kind of 2005-style offline reader software available that can download mail to a single file on a usb key, to load up and reply to at home outside of the time and money limits of a dingy internet cafe?
posted on Jan 14, 2005 - 4 answers

So I just got a 512MB USB key drive as an early christmas present, and I'm looking for interesting things to put on it (other than, you know, files). I know about Portable Firefox and Portable Thunderbird, but is there anything else I should check out?
posted on Dec 24, 2004 - 11 answers