Flash Drive locked folder

Hi all ,
I recently bought a 4Gig flash drive to use as a very large spare HD on my Mac . I'm an image collector/history buff and all the images I have collected are starting to slow my comp down a bit so I started transferring them into my new Flash drive to get them off my HD . When I bought this particular drive it had advertised a few built in cheese apps meant for windows that I had no interest in , but the price was right . At the time i didn't care because I knew my mac wouldn't read them anyway , and they did not even show up at all . I then happily started my transfers , I got a few of the usual file char errors but thought nothing of it . When all was said and done , all my images were gone from the folder I created ! Not only that , the folder is now locked and I cant unlock it and trash it ! any Ideas?

Are you talking about the original folder on your computer or the folder that was created on the flash drive? I will assume the latter.
Flash drives usually come formatted for PC machines, in FAT format. If you are using this drive exclusively with your Mac you might want to partition and format it for Mac use. I haven't had any real problems using a PC format drive with Macs but there are some file limitations and it makes life easier just to use Mac format (HFS extended) if that's all you need.
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