.ink issue on a thumb drive

Hi,
Trying to help a friend out.
She has a MB Air - has a thumb drive she uses with it - she put this in a PC for printing and now the main folder is a .ink file so she cannot access the files. The drive is showing on the mac as FAT32 and is 25GB of 32GB full so is not just shortcuts.
I put this in my laptop and it works fine so the files are definately on there. How do you convert it back so that macs can use again?
Thanks,
Mark

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