Not enough room on flash stick?

~Wingnut~ | 08:31 Sat 19th Sep 2009 | Technology

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Hi!
My daughter needs to put 2 pictures of herself on to a flash stick for school next week. My Step-Dad gave me a 8GB flash stick. The stick is totally empty, yet I put one picture of herself on it and now it is saying the stick is almost full! Am I right in thinking she will need a 8MB stick for projects like this? Or is there something wrong with the stick?
What sort of info should you be putting on a 8GB stick if it will only hold one picture? (that's my own curiosity asking there)

What sort of size should she be looking for as I think she is wanting to put more projects on to it as she goes on through school?

Any help is much appreciated :o)

Need help please!!!

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tamborine

Often multi pixel cameras make higher megabytes photos, make sure the pics are jpg files and NOT bmp or other.

~Wingnut~

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Hmmm thinking about it and after looking on the web, have I got my gigabytes and megabytes mixed up?

~Wingnut~

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Opps Hi Tamborine!, you sneaked in there! :o)

Thank you for your help I will go have a look now.

~Wingnut~

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Hi again! I have checked and it says it is JPeg and the size is 1.73MB. I have tried putting it into a compressed folder but it only reduces it by a small amount. I am baffled!

tamborine

picture sizes show on left hand side, bottom, of Window picture.

~Wingnut~

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Hi again :o)

Would 1.73MB fill a 8GB memory stick? I'm wondering if the stick is duff!