[sworthy]

I'm a newbie to the Mac world, so excuse me if this is a stupid question...

I recently imported around 100 pictures from a compact flash card (128mb) to iphoto on my powerbook 1GHz. I forgot to check the delete after importing box. So I manually deleted the pictures from the card by dragging them to the trash. The pictures are no longer there, but they still take up 118mb of space. How do I erase the card when the contents already don't show up

Thanks for the help.

[CRASH HARDDRIVE]

Remember, the Mac creates a seperate trash (and desktop) folder for each disk.

Therefore when you put the files on that disk 'in the trash' you are actually putting them into a hidden trash folder on the flash disk. (Ditto, if you take a file from the flash disk and drop it on the desktop, you're actually moving it to the desktop folder of just that disk).

Therefore, to truly get rid of the files you have to empty the trash with the disk containing the files in use. Mount the flash card again, and see if the files are still 'in the trash' then empty it.

[sworthy]

Thanks so much, worked like a charm