Hi Chris,

I think Anne answered this a couple of months earlier.  I'll paste in her 
answer:

<begin quote>
I don't know anything about that other operating system, but on the Mac, if you 
empty the trash before disconnecting the device, those hidden files should 
disappear and the space will be freed up. I always do this with my Milestone 
and any USB drives.
<end quote>

If you're really annoyed by these files you can buy a BlueHarvest4 license:
http://www.zeroonetwenty.com/blueharvest4/

I've never used this myself, but you can download the free trial and then 
spring for a $13.95 single user license if you wish.

HTH.  Cheers,

Esther

On Jun 5, 2011, at 14:46, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:

> OK, this is driving me bonkers!  Is there not a way to shut this off?  Every 
> time I insert a USB thumb/Flash drive, or my NLS cartrage etc. into my 
> macbook, OSX just totally! insists on making 3 folders on the drive:
> 
> .fseventsd
> .Spotlight-V100
> and .Trashes
> 
> I know the folders are extremely little in size and unharmful, but they're 
> getting in my way!  Especially being I use some of these drives both on 
> windows and on the Mac.
> 
> Is there not a way to have the mac not auto create those?
> 
> Chris. 
> 

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