Makes since, but what doesn't make since is the fact that if I open
these .trashes files on my Windows machine it contains the same movie
that I loaded to the converted movies folder. I looked at the
properties of the file and it is the same as the other one. Also the
movie plays and everything else like the original.
On Oct 23, 2007, at 7:42 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
When you connect media including networked drives to your Mac, the
Mac indexes the drive/media and places some files on it for
reference The first time youaccess it. You may have noticed that
after the first access, access is faster. The files aren't that
large. When you perform transfer operations a temporary holding
area is created on the media to ensure against data loss while the
transfer is in progress and so that interrupted transfers other
than by user can continue. Windows does a lot of this stuff too
calling them .tmp files. The reason you don't see
the .trashes, .temporaryitems, .store or whatever it is from your
desktop is that by default, anything with a . before it is hidden
from view. were you in terminal, you would be able to see all
those files. Windows too can be set to restrict showing of these
files. No harm is done if you delete the files, it just takes
longer for the Mac to access them when next connected.
On Oct 23, 2007, at 7:33 PM, VaShaun Jones wrote:
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"
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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
