Cinematographer and Director V.S. Technology

As you all probably know by now, my bud Pierce is the director and I am the cinematographer. Together, on the last day of school before spring break, we were tasked with a daunting, formidable request by our editor Ben:

"Can you put all the media clips on a flash-drive?"

PRETTY TOUGH REQUEST, RIGHT?

WRONG!!!

It shouldn't have been that hard, really! But it WAS. After all, hindsight is 20/20, and looking back on it I am ashamed at how long it took us to achieve this. Here is our story:

After I had airdropped all videos filmed on my phone to my MacBook, we placed them all in a folder and saved that file to my desktop. We then took the SD card out of my Canon camera, imported them on my Mac, and placed all of those clips in a second folder which also got saved to my desktop. So at this point we had two folders, taking up almost 3 total gigabytes of space. All we had to do was simply drag the folders onto the flash-drive and bam! We would have been done and ready to proceed.

There was just one tinyyyy issue we kept bumping into every time we'd try to drag a file.

The same aggressive message kept popping up on my computer screen.

"There is not enough disk space to complete this action."

I kid you not, Pierce and I went crazy. We were so confused! How could my hard drive not have enough space? "I have 173 GB of space left on this Mac!" I kept screaming. How could my computer possibly be out of space? Keep in mind that Pierce and I were skipping lunch to do this. Instead of the cafeteria, we were sitting in Mr. Engles Pre-Aice English class listening to them talk about MacBeth. It is no joke when I say Pierce and I spent the ENTIRE class period googling questions online such as "How to find hard drive space on Mac" and "what does it mean when you don't have enough disk space." We ended up deleting my trash which hadn't been emptied in months, deleting stuff from my desktop and even throwing away files that have been on my computer since 9th grade. Still, it kept telling us we didn't have enough disk space to transfer the video clips! Eventually we waited for Mr. Engle to get done teaching so we could present him with our massive issue, since we couldn't fix it alone. I'll never forget his response.

"Uhhh... it means your flash drive is too full. Delete some stuff on there."

THE LOOK PIERCE AND I SHARED WAS ONE OF TRUE SHAME. How did we not figure that out?! The whole time we thought it was saying the hard drive on my Mac was too full, but really it was saying the flash drive was too full. We ended up using a different flash drive I unearthed from my backpack because Pierce's flash drive didn't have 3 gigs free. After that, it was smooth sailing. But let me tell you, it really took us forever! Thank you Mr. Engle for saving the day again!

*** For anyone still wondering, yes, we did manage to get all of the clips onto a single flash drive. LOL!***