Moving music files (making them small)

Rowem

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I want to move some music from my desktop to my laptop. The files are currently huge and do not fit on my tiny memory stick.

I don't understand all this jibber-jabber about compressing files and different formatting types to makes the files smaller. Please explain to me in simple English how I go about doing what I need to be doing.
 
could you not put some music on the memory stick put it on th laptop and then delete it from the memory stick and repeat?
 
Yeah but atm I can fit one song on at a time.

And some songs are too big.
 
Ah, Ive found the problem.

My 2GB memory stick has somehow decided it's now a 3MB memory stick.

I dont know how thats happened.
 
Nope tried that. Nothing on there at all. I think it must have been damaged some how.

I've found an old 512MB stick tho, so that's fine for now.
 
Rowem said:
Ah, Ive found the problem.

My 2GB memory stick has somehow decided it's now a 3MB memory stick.

I dont know how thats happened.
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:lol: I was going to ask how big these files are.

If you would like to sort out your usb stick then as a last resort 'format' the drive - right click on it in my computer - that should sort it.

If that doesn't work its probably damaged beyond repair - it may not let you format it as well if that is the case.

Note that you will loose anything currently on there if you do format it.
 
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