Kingston USB pendrive shows fuller than files shown

[techwanabe]

I haven't been using these USB Pendrives long, and I think they are great. In fact these will kill floppy disk drives finally.

Now, I've got a little 16 meg jumpdrive that I've been copying files from my old computer to my new one, and it appears to have less than 1 mb of files on it, but when I show properties, it shows more than 3 mb in use. Do these things have to be refreshed or reformated after using them allot? If so, how is this done. I'd like to reclaim the lost space.

Thanks

 

[techwanabe]

*bump*

Here is another odd thing. I tried copying my Favorites folder to my USB pendrive. I've copied the USB folder many times ot CD etc to bring my book marked websites to a new computer. In this case, I plug the USB drive into my new computer and the Favorites folder doesn show. Weird.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Pretty much anything written in FAT16 or FAT32 needs to be formatted every now and then because they dont do a good job of cleaning up after files are deleted.