HOW TO FIX HIDDEN FILES written to a Fat32 USB Disk?

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HOW TO FIX HIDDEN FILES written to a Fat32 USB Disk?

I am saving same images to an usb stick in jpg format on a uSB Stick formatted as fat32. them I take it to my computer to that I can play it as a slideshow.

It works but I am also getting a duplicate set of files with an "Dot.underscore" filename.

I play the slideshow on my TV but those files show as an error.

What can I do so that it sonly show the files I want to save.?

MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.14

Posted on Jun 2, 2019 5:40 PM

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Barney-15E

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Jun 2, 2019 5:50 PM in response to pimentel

Those are metadata files that are created because FAT32 can't handle combined files with metadata.

You can use the dot_clean utility in Terminal to strip out the metadata.

Copy/Paste the following command, leaving a space after it, don't hit return, yet.

dot_clean -m

then, drag your USB stick to the Terminal window and hit return.

That will strip off the ._ files.

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Jun 3, 2019 5:59 PM in response to Barney-15E

You are the best

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HOW TO FIX HIDDEN FILES written to a Fat32 USB Disk?

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