Thank Neil,
What I didn't realize was that you have to empty the trash on
each attached device as it is selected.
Perhaps I have been too long with Windows where the trash only
applied to files deleted on the hard drive, and there is no such
thing as a trash can for each device.
many thanks ... Clyde
On 01/04/2008, at 9:50 AM, Neil Houghton wrote:
Hi Clyde,
Have you done "empty trash" when the drive is mounted.
I think that for the USB drive, like any other disk, "deleting" a
file does
not really delete it - just moves it to trash (in this case the
trashes
files on the drive).
To really delete files you have to empty the trash!
Hope that helps
Cheers
Neil
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on 1/4/08 8:47 AM, Clyde McLennan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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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