On Jul 27, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] wrote:

> On Jul 27, 2013, at 12:41 PM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 27 Jul 2013, at 10:21 , Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I used the Terminal to delete a few of these hidden files, one at a time, 
>>> and this seemed to work, but deleting all of these files one at a time 
>>> throughout the entire flash drive would be very tedious and time consuming.
>> 
>> cd /Volumes/FLASHDRIVE
>> 
>> find . -name "._*" -delete
> 
> Thank you very much for the quick and helpful response!  I really appreciate 
> it.


You realize that this is a side-effect of the file system you chose, yes?
You are essentially removing the Resource Fork of the files as they have been 
converted to the FAT32 system.

Aloha,
Michael.
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