The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
The Guiding Principles and New Rules document is now in effect.
Photos appear in iPhoto, but not on USB drive
Nataneko
Registered User regular
Registered User regular
Yesterday was Christmas at my job (I work in a daycare), so my boss took loads of picture and as usual, put them on a USB key so I could have them. So I plug it in, open iPhoto and go to file>import. It start uploading the pictures..... and tons and tons of my boss family pictures (nothing compromising, just.... none of my business). So my first tought is why didn't he delete it first? so I open the drive, but when I open the folder, only the christmas pictures show up.
We use those drive to share pictures of birthdays and such with parents. And I'm sure he doesn't want to share personal pictures with them without knowing, so I'm going to talk to him about deleting his picture. But then I guess I got old or something, because I don't know why it would only show up in iPhoto, but not on the drive, so I guess I don't know the proper way of deleting stuff on a usb key so we don't share personnal stuff. (we have multiple keys and I know the easy answer would be to just use them for daycare stuff and not personnal stuff, but even then, I'm thinking a parents could end up with pictures of other kids and that could be a problem). He's using a macbook pro, and I also tried in windows and only saw the christmas picture there too.
tl;dr: How do you delete picture from a flash drive so you don't end up sharing something you're not supposed to?
We use those drive to share pictures of birthdays and such with parents. And I'm sure he doesn't want to share personal pictures with them without knowing, so I'm going to talk to him about deleting his picture. But then I guess I got old or something, because I don't know why it would only show up in iPhoto, but not on the drive, so I guess I don't know the proper way of deleting stuff on a usb key so we don't share personnal stuff. (we have multiple keys and I know the easy answer would be to just use them for daycare stuff and not personnal stuff, but even then, I'm thinking a parents could end up with pictures of other kids and that could be a problem). He's using a macbook pro, and I also tried in windows and only saw the christmas picture there too.
tl;dr: How do you delete picture from a flash drive so you don't end up sharing something you're not supposed to?
0
Posts
On my old MBP (I dont know if newer OS releases fixed this...?) I could drag items on a USB drive to the trash - and they wopuld "dissapear" from view, but the USB drive still showed as having the space unavailable. I had to not only drag the files to the trash, but also to "empty" the trash. Could this be related?
Alternatively, you want to formal the USB drive the re-copy all the images onto it fresh (make sure you back up what you need prior!)
To format a USB drive, go to disk utility.