Hi Shaun and Josh, This topic came up on the list earlier this year, and also in a much earlier thread about "copying files from mac to pc" You can try moving your files by first putting them into .zip files using the contextual menu in Finder and choosing "Create Archive" or you could use a freeware tool called KopyMac at:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10987 Mac files have, in addition to their data, a part that contains resource fork information that finder uses. For example, you've probably noticed that unlike Windows, files with the same extension can have different default applications to open them, so an mp3 file you edited might open in Sound Studio, while another mp3 file might open in iTunes. If you were using your thumb drive to transfer data to another Mac, that information would be necessary, and that's what's contained in the extra files that begin with "._" before their name. This is discussed in the list archive post: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg13735.html but the interesting details, along with the link to KopyMac and other possible solutions are in a macintouch reader reports page link given in that post. It is: http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/macosx10_4_2/topic3705.html#oct12 One of the solutions is to start by emptying the Trash on the Mac side as Josh recommends, but then also go to terminal and use the "rm" command to remove the files that start with "._" (More details about the commands to type are given there. Instead of dragging and dropping the thumb drive to terminal to list its contents, after typing "ls -a" start typing "/Volumes/" and hit the tab key to let the Mac complete the device name.) The solution to use .zip files, which are readable by both Mac and PC, and which have no associated secondary files, appeared somewhere in the earlier discussion thread on the Macvisionaries list link in my archive post. Hope this helps. Cheers, Esther On Dec 01, 2007, at 06:16AM, "Josh de Lioncourt" wrote: > > >I think your problem will be solved if you empty your Trash on the Mac >side while the drive is connected. Then those files won't be so big. >They are probably full of the files you are trying to delete from the >drive. > >Josh de Lioncourt >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >...my other mail provider is an owl... > > > >On 1 Dec, 2007, at 5:02 AM, VaShaun Jones wrote: > >> Listers I use removable media such as thumb drives and SD cards. I >> find that if I start with my Mac and put stuff on it to move over to >> a Windows machine, I find dot files like .trashes. I would not be >> annoyed if they didn't eat up most of my space on the drive. How do >> I stop these files from showing up? I was told that they were hidden >> files for faster Mac indexing, but what I need to pull off of 4GB of >> space doesn't need to be accessed that fast to justify the >> annoyance. Thanks for anyone's help on this irritating matter. >> > > >
