No problem James, glad you found it to be of some use. Chris Hallsworth BrailleNote mPower user Website: www.chrishallsworth.co.nr ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Austin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:50 PM Subject: Re: Formatting my thumb drive using my Mac
Thanks for this Chris, didn't know that On 23 Oct 2007, at 23:38, Chris Hallsworth wrote: > Hi all, I don't usually contribute on here, so thanks for allowing > me to do > so. Anyway, from a general computing point of view, you should > *only* format > any media, including thumb drives, hard drives, etc, if the file > system > becomes seriously corrupted. True, it erases all the data, but > unless you > can fork out money for data recovery, you might as well lose data > to get > your media working proper again. Just some thoughts there. > Chris Hallsworth > BrailleNote mPower user > Website: www.chrishallsworth.co.nr > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joan Alice Maria Gibson, Esquire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac > OS X by > theblind" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 6:48 PM > Subject: Re: Formatting my thumb drive using my Mac > > > I have not had to reformat or erase my Kingston thumb drive yet. > All I do is > 'command+a' to select all, then hit the delete key and I have a > clean thumb > drive with the original amount of space on it. Have been doing this > for > about 3 years now and it always seem to work for me. > JG > > On 10/23/07, VaShaun Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Thanks > >
