Shuffle won't empty disk files

Hello all shuffle enthusiasts,
I use my shuffle as a FlashDrive and as an iPod. I have set the amount of disk to be something over 900MB and the rest for songs. The shuffle had 10KB of free space left and I decided to delete a few files so that I can add some new ones. I did so, but the shuffle on Get Info showed 10KB of free space on disk after the deletion of over 200MB of stuff.
In addition, even though I have deleted 200MB worth of information, I cannot add any files to it as it says that there is not enough space.
How do I reset the disk memory on the shuffle? Or any other way of solving the problem..!
Thank you,
solar

Cheers Steven,
As simple as that! Trash emptied, available space is truly "available" as supposed!!
Thank you SOO SOO much...
Have a great new month,
solar

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