OK, why are they there and why do they duplicate the the same thing
that is in the other folder with other added stuff? It takes up room
on my drive and to transfer more than one movie I delete them. I
would like to know more about this if you know more.
On Oct 23, 2007, at 7:16 PM, Dan Keys wrote:
Hi,
Actually, the Mac does put those files there. They are usually
hidden files.
Dan
On Oct 23, 2007, at 3:55 PM, 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
