usb-creator-gtk tells me there is not enough free space on a completely emtpy USB stick

[Jeff Lane ]

why does usb-creator-gtk have to be so buggy?

It is now telling me that my empty 4GB USB stick doesn't have enough free space for a 1GB desktop iso image.

see the attached screen shot. And here is info on my device:

/dev/sdb1 3.8G 20M 3.8G 1% /media/bladernr/077BB9746C036A50

just to make sure that the disk and fs on it were good, I creted a couple files on it, but there is 3.8GB free space, usb-creator-gtk fails to see that and refuses to make my bootable usb stick.

Once again, I have to fall back to unetbootin because this tool is broken.

[Yu Ning (yuningdodo)]

I can't find the screen shot, Jeff, could you please upload it again?

[HillClimber (launchpad-pub)]

Here's a screenshot... I"m having the same problem. I have tried usb-creator a couple times a year every year for the past few years and it has *always* failed due to bugs. It would be great if new user's first experience with trying to install Ubuntu could be a lot smoother!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[HillClimber (launchpad-pub)]

Oh, and trying to "erase" just spins a bit, then returns to the same state.

[Yu Ning (yuningdodo)]

This might be a duplicate of bug #1413494, or the reverse.