Possible thumb drive problem
Now that thumb drives are becoming very common and are getting bigger, we have to revisit a problem that we used to have back in the days of Windows 95. Thumb drives are generally formatted in the old FAT system with all the limitations of that old system. For example, there can be at most 512 files in the root directory. With long file names so prevalent, the upper limit on how many files can go directly on the root is likely to be considerably lower. You could easily find yourself getting error messages about being out of space with just a couple hundred files even if you have only used a fraction of the disk space. The solution is to put most or all files into folders.
A lesser problem is the inefficiency of the FAT system in using space. Thumb drives have gotten as big as the hard drive used to be so space may not be important for most people. Still, those who store a lot of files might consider reformatting to FAT32.
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The 1GBthumb drive I recently bought came formatted with FAT32. I reformatted the drive to NTFS.
Sol