It is not likely to be a virus. I have seen similar things appear on
my USB storage etc when I've used them in a Windows machine. It is
something to do with hiden files i think
On 23 Oct 2007, at 23:55, VaShaun Jones wrote:
Well here is my problem and it is a dubby. I noticed it when I
started using Handbreak on the Mac to convert DVD's to a format
that can be played on my wife's Creative Zinn M MP3 player. I would
convert the movie and move it to a folder created for transfering
the files called converted movies. I would take the file from my
Mac and put it in that folder, put it in my wif's Windows machine
and ttransfer the movie. After this is done I see a folder on the
top level of the thumb drive called .trashes or .data. The Mac
doesn't see these strange files, but when I open them I see a copy
of the movie with a bunch of files that have dot in the front of
their name. Since the file wasn't created by me or my wife and the
Mac doesn't reconize them as being there, I figured it was a virus.
This happens on any Windows machine that I have tried. In trouble
shooting the problem I was going to start with a new thumb drive
and go from there. Google has no relavent results for the .trashes
issue. If anyone knows whats going on, please inform me of what to
do. Thanks
On Oct 23, 2007, at 6:38 PM, Chris Hallsworth wrote:
Hi all, I don't usually contribute on here, so thanks for allowing
me to do
so. Anyway, from a general computing point of view, you should
*only* format
any media, including thumb drives, hard drives, etc, if the file
system
becomes seriously corrupted. True, it erases all the data, but
unless you
can fork out money for data recovery, you might as well lose data
to get
your media working proper again. Just some thoughts there.
Chris Hallsworth
BrailleNote mPower user
Website: www.chrishallsworth.co.nr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joan Alice Maria Gibson, Esquire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac
OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: Formatting my thumb drive using my Mac
I have not had to reformat or erase my Kingston thumb drive yet.
All I do is
'command+a' to select all, then hit the delete key and I have a
clean thumb
drive with the original amount of space on it. Have been doing
this for
about 3 years now and it always seem to work for me.
JG
On 10/23/07, VaShaun Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks
