Can't Do Wholesale Delete of Items on Kingston Thumb Drive

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xlevine

I have a Kingston Thumb Drive and after I do a Sync from my PC drive I select all the leftover files on my Kingston drive, hit delete, but it won't let me delete those files. I have to individually select each file I want to delete and that works but is time consuming. Thanks
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therube

What does it do (when you attempt to delete)?
Any messages given?
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xlevine

Something like can't do it. Would you like to try again or cancel. BTW when I'm connected to a hard drive everything I selected gets deleted perfectly. If only the thumb drive would do the same thing.
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xlevine

Ran a test. I copied some files from my PC to my Thumb Drive, say Folder A. And the files I copied from my PC were not in Folder A but from another folder Folder B. I then went to Compare and Sync on both A Folders. Then I went to delete the remaining files on the Thumb Drive that I copied to it from PC Folder B. I had no problems using Alt A then delete. So now I'm stumped. It's working when I force files onto the Thumb Drive but not when I'm left with files that were previously on my drive. I give up.