Mac and Word say 2GB Flashdrive is full, when its not

All of a sudden, my 2GB Flashdrive is saying its full and Word will not let me save to it and I can't drag files into it. I know I've never put that much on it, nor have I deleted anything off of it.
Any suggestions?

Hi Beth,
If it's Fat32/MS-DOS format you'll get a full error if there are too many files at root of the drive.
You'll need to remove/delete at least one item so you can make a folder, then move everything else to that folder. Make more folders for newer things, as Folders have limit's also, just not as limited as the root... top level of the drive.

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