Hi,
I have found that when USB memory sticks (thumb drives) that after deleting some files that the capacity of the drive is reduced.

On further investigation, I find that if I then transfer that USB memory stick to a windows computer there are additional directories/ files that have a name like 'trashes'. These apparently were put there by OSX, and contain, I think, the previously deleted files. If this is correct, then that would explain why the USB memory stick capacity seems to reduce after deleting files in OSX.

I find that I can recover the memory capacity by doing a reformat in Windows, or deleting in Windows these 'trashes' files/directories'.

But what can I do in OSX to stop them from appearing, or if they are created, how can I get rid of them as they don't show up on the OSX 'Finder'.

   With thanks  ... Clyde

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