.Trashes filling up my SD card...

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.Trashes filling up my SD card...

I'm a relative Mac newbie here.

I have an SD card I use with my Treo to, amongst other things, save MP3s.

I've noticed that when I take the SD card to my Mac to delete the mp3s (so I can put some new tunes on it) a .Trashes folder is created that is filled with copies of the stuff I just deleted, thereby filling up the SD card. Consequently, the .Trashes folder has to be deleted before I can add more stuff.

Two questions:
[1] Is there a way to keep the .Trashes folder being created on the SD card (since my Treo has no use for it).

and

[2] How do I delete the .Trashes file from my Mac? (I guess these are "hidden files", cuz they don't show up in Finder when I browse the card. (I've been sticking the card into a Windows computer to delete the folder before putting the SD card back in my Treo).

Thanks!

Posted on Sep 25, 2005 9:42 AM

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Answer 1

Kappy

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Sep 25, 2005 10:24 AM in response to Argelius

When you drag files to the Trash they are not deleted. To delete them you must empty the Trash by selecting the Trash in the Dock and CTRL-cliciking on it, then select Empty from the contextual menu.

The hidden file appears on the card because, I am assuming, the card is formatted MSDOS. The MSDOS filesystem doesn't understand the Unix convention of the "." as the lead character of a filename means "hidden." When you drag files to the Trashcan, they actually go to the .Trash folder. When you Empty the Trash the files will disappear from the .Trash folder.

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