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Downloading to a USB flash drive (2 attempted: Sandisk Cruzer and Kingston, both with plenty to free space) has always been slower than other transfers (ie, HD to HD, HD to Firewire HD), but suddenly transfer rates plummeted from a few minutes for 50 MB to well over an hour. I tried restarting alone, ran Applejack on a second restart, nothing. Folders downloaded contain jpg images, pdfs, and MS doc and docx files, nothing unusual, and pretty much the exact same folders that were already on the drive. I was updating them to include a few current files. Incidentally, after none of the above worked, I tried deleting one of the folders I was replacing (and emptying the trash) before transferring the folder to the USB drive, with no success.
This has never been an issue on this same Power Mac g5 running the same everything and using the same 2 flash drives (I keep them as supplemental backups of current data).
Anybody have an idea why the transfer rate would slow this much?
thanks

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Show Hidden Files 1.0...
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/29096/show-hidden-files
Hidden Way is a toggle for hidden files view in Finder...
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