You say you have plenty of space available, but that may not be the issue.

  I haven't looked in detail into file systems for flash devices, but on the
various "FAT" file systems used on floppies and hard drives, the "root
directory" is of a fixed size and can only hold N entries.  (The exact value
of N is determined when the file system is formatted.)
  So, if you've just been putting all of your files at the root of the
device, you may have used up all the root directory entries.

  If this is in fact the problem, you should be able to move a couple of
files off the device, create a folder (that move of a couple of files should
allow this creation to work, and then start moving your files into folders.
  If that doesn't work, then your problem stems from some other issue.

David Gillett


On 25 Jun 2005 at 18:00, Karen Kelly wrote:

> I have a Lexar 256MB JumpDrive.  It was working great, but now it
> won't let me save anything.  When I try, I get a popup Windows message
> that says "The directory or file could not be created".  What is this
> telling me??? I have plenty of available space and I ran Norton
> AntiVirus against it.  All indications are that it is working
> properly, except it's not!  I have no idea if it has any added
> security extras, and if it does, I must have invoked them unknowingly.
>  All I know is, I was able to save to it, and now I can't. Any help
> would be most appreciated.

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