[macvoiceover] external drives: was: Re: Re: flash drives
- From: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 08:10:20 -0400
how do I control them on remote shares?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob Schmude" <j.schmude@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:32 AM
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: flash drives
Hi
OS X has a hidden preference to not create these over network shares,
but I haven't found a way to prevent them being created on flash
drives. The reason they are created is that the Mac filesystem, HFS+,
supports many different metadata tags on its files. These are used for
numerous purposes, such as storing the file's custom icon and window
position, and custom character encodings, etc. They are also spotlight
indexing files, and one of them (.trash) is that drive's trash folder.
Since the windows filesystems don't support this kind of metadata
directly, these files are created to hold it. The Mac reads these
transparently, but any non-Mac system will see them and will not know
what to do, consequently they will show up on the file browser. You
get the same result if you use the Mac's archive utility to create a
zip archive of any folders on an HFS+ drive, the metadata is stored
along with it, if there is any.
Turning off spotlight indexing for that drive will reduce the number
of these files, but will not completely eliminate them. At the very
least the .DS_Store and .trash folders will remain. I wish I knew how
to make them stop appearing on flash drives, but I don't. I've only
been able to control their behavior on remote shares.
On Oct 6, 2008, at 18:46, Sara wrote:
> Great question would love to know. I suspect they are spotlight
> indexers or something. I find it annoying to see these all over
> flash drives.
> Sara
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Arrigo" <n0oxy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 6:29 PM
> Subject: [macvoiceover] flash drives
>
>
>> Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows if there is a way to prevent
>> the mac from creating the hidden folders when connecting a flash
>> drive or using a card reader. I switch between my mac and pc, and
>> always see 2 or 3 folders that start with a period when using this
>> media on my windows computer, I was just wondering if there was a
>> way to indicate that I do not want these folders created.
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