howt to stop .spotlight and .fseventsd folder creation during copy file to usb

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howt to stop .spotlight and .fseventsd folder creation during copy file to usb

Hi

I have Macbook Air Laptop when I copying the file from laptop to usb, in USB automatically two folder created .spotlight and .fsventsd.

I would like to know what is the purpose to creating this hidden folder into USB.

And If I want to stop creating this folder into USB what would be the setting require, Please guide for the same.

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Oct 18, 2011 4:09 AM

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Fortuny

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Oct 18, 2011 6:05 AM in response to suhrid

Try using BlueHarvest to turn off their creation.

These files contain folder and file information and because of the leading . (point) are usually hidden in OSX and its file system (MacOS Extended (Journaled)).

When copied to an USB-stick or external harddisk which uses the Windows file system (MS-DOS = FAT32) these files get visible.

You can delete them from the USB manually.

Stefan

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