.DS_Store, .Trashes, etc, on Flash Drive

I don't really understand the question, but to keep your files from being altered you can lock them by using apple-i and using the lock check box or change the read/write privileges.
Hope this helps,
Mitch

The Mac will create the .Trashes folder on any attached drive--that's were it puts things destined for the trash process. I don't believe there is any way to stop this. The .DS_Store file is created whenever a Finder window for the folder is opened. Don't know of any way to open a folder in the Finder and not have the file created. Take a look at this MacOSXHints discussion:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005070300463515

You'll find a number of ideas for coping with this.
Francine


Francine
Schwieder

I've been using BlueHavest for a while and it's nicely taken care of this problem for me.

Peter

PowerBook G4,1.67Ghz, 1G RAM, 15" Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Brian,

You asked,

"Is there a why to keep OS X from creating/using these folders on a specific device?

Oh and can I make it stop creating these hidden files/folders on my windows shares as well?"

Those files, which you can only see when looking at your flash drive on your Windows machine, are hidden files OS X makes to keep track of files/folders and the trash. Remember, you can put something in the trash before you empty it, which is what the .trash file is for. Any file starting with a "." is a hidden file, necessary for system operation. (Which is why it's hidden, so you can't mess with it.)

As far as I know, you can't stop OS X from creating these files on your device ,as they are necessary. If anyone else knows otherwise, maybe they can chime in. I'll do a bit of research on the sharing part, but I don't think you do anything about them.

Brad

17 iMac 1.25GHz 768 MB DDR Mac OS X (10.4.4)

You can't prevent those things from being written but they can be hidden. Out of sight, etc. If you bring up the properties sheet for them in Windows there's an option you can check to make them hidden. However, that would be on a per-machine basis.