Hacking Micro SD Reformatting on Mac

[Vincent T]

Ok so I have a 2 GB micro sd from patriot. When I turn on my cyclo, it says I only have 6 mb left. But I only have 9 games. Bleach(117mb), castlevania(48mb), fromtheabbys(24mb), JUS(62mb), locksquest(30mb), mariokart(24mb), somabringer(122mb), and spectrobes(59mb). Also, I have a few skins and thats pretty much it. So does it really take up all this space and have 6 mb left? Or do I have to reformat my sd card.
Thanks.

 

[Kimi]

Have you emptied the trash? With that card mounted? Could be that you just forgot (I'm always doing it).

 

[Rascal]

Kimi is correct. By default, Mac OS does keep deleted files in a hidden trash folder on SD cards. Did emptying the trash help? If you're interested, there are utilities that can a) avoid the use of trash on removable media and/or b) get rid of Mac specific files like resource forks. I'm using a utility called BlueHarvest and it does both (and more).