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My smart playlist is much larger than reported

I want to put the contents of a 249 Gb playlist onto a 256 Gb USB flash drive. I drag/drop the playlist tracks onto the drive in the Finder in batches since doing it in one operation chokes the Finder.


The playlist is ordered by Album title while I do this. For some reason, I can't even get through Albums starting with 'M' before I run out of space on the flash drive.


Why would this be given that the stated and reported size of the drive should easily accommodate the playlist contents?


macOS v.11.6


TIA,

David

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Oct 29, 2021 10:38 AM

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Posted on Nov 4, 2021 5:47 PM

I figured out what was going on! I'm a bit embarrassed but there were deleted files on the flash drive that I never cleared out of the Trash!!! That cleared up the space I was expecting.


Thanks for your help.

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