Morning, Thank's Ronnie for the info for ejecting a thumb drive,correctly.
Reason for doing this is to empty all directories/folders including hidden directories/folders. OS X has hidden folders those that are preceded by a dot hence .Trashes where those files appeared from. Spotlight and other applications or Services utilise such folders also. Viewable within terminal, by typing ls -a at prompt then drag icon at top of finder folder opened at said device. Looking something like this within terminal at prompt ls - a /volumes/Lexar then enter which reveals all folders on drive, including . or ._. etc.... So, unless Ronnie's procedures are followed you still have files in .Trashes or more, also this is what recovery programs and FSCK use to rebuild drives. When viewing these devices within windows they will appear also with other appendices. Cheers! `RobD... On 26Apr2011, at 6:40 am, Kevin wrote: > I recently had the same problem with phantom photos appearing on a thumb > drive at Harvey Norman. I had previously deleted all the files on the drive > and then loaded some pics I wanted to print. > > The phantom pics didn't appear on the drive. > > I was able to print the ones I wanted and when I returned home, formatted the > drive on a PC to Fat23. That seemed to do the trick. No more ghosties. > > > Regards > > Kevin > > > > >> Good morning all >> >> I came in to write my query, which is a little odd, and saw the >> correspondence on the Seagate external drive. This query is very similar >> to mine I think, but maybe slightly different, so I have given mine a >> different heading. >> >> I have carried my USB sticks with me for many years, everywhere I have gone >> basically, and quite often copied photos from my (then) Windows onto mainly >> friends/families Windows, and back to my PC or to (eg) Officeworks, Harvey >> Norman to copy and print photos. (Obviously, about 5 years ago this became >> to and from my Mac, to their Windows or Macs). >> >> Very recently (because I had a feeling that my USB stick was not "quite >> right") I took my small external hard drive to Officeworks with a batch of >> photos for printing, to learn that apparently because the formatting was >> done on a Mac, I could not copy the photos onto one of their machines. >> >> So I bought a new USB stick from Officeworks, came home, copied the photos I >> wanted onto this, and had the batch of photos successfully printed. >> >> A few days later, I copied a batch of photos from my husband's Mac and >> transferred them onto my Mac. **This set of photo had been downloaded onto >> his Mac by a DVD and had - I assume -come from a Windows PC). >> >> Next I deleted that batch of photos from my USB stick. When it showed up >> empty in Finder I copied 121 photos onto it, including about 30 from the >> batch as in the above paragraph. >> >> About a week later I went back to Officeworks to have my 121 photos printed. >> >> When I inserted my USB stick all appeared well and they downloaded right up >> to the point where I had put my name, address and so on. Very strange >> though, it said there were 500 odd photos. Being distracted at the time >> because I was due to meet someone, I assumed I had downloaded more photos >> than I had realised, and just proceeded. >> >> Then the machine threw a big hissy fit and declared "there has been a fatal >> error" and shut down. The girl behind the counter did not know why and >> suggested I use another machine, which I did, and all went through (still >> showing over 500 photos though). >> >> Came the time to pick the photos and off I went home and laid them out - yes >> there were over 500 photos, nearly all of them from the large batch >> downloaded from the DVD set, which had been deleted from the USB stick and >> which did not show up in Finder. There were duplicates and triplicates of >> some of these. >> >> So I believed my USB stick was corrupt, and deleted everything from it. It >> is on my desk now and I believe it should just hit the bin. Before I >> deleted everything showing I checked and yes, it definitely only showed 121 >> items. >> >> In the future then is it necessary to format USB sticks if I am only copying >> from my Mac onto other Macs? I do not think I have formatted my USB sticks >> ever, certainly not for many years. >> >> Is it going to be possible to copy photos from my Mac to a PC and/or vice >> versa? I have done this in the past with no problems, though not recently. >> >> Thanks for any suggestions, enjoy the rest of our little holiday break. >> >> Peta >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
