Files appear in trash when flash drive inserted

bpgf,

this is purely a guess — perhaps the files with time suffixes are temporary copies of the files without the time suffixes, and perhaps these latter two files on the Cruzer Switch were viewed in Excel, had some sort of transformation done to them, but the transformation wasn’t saved, and Excel wasn’t gracefully exited?

To investigate further, you could create a new folder on the Cruzer Switch, move the four files from the Trash to the new folder, eject the Cruzer Switch, and then reïnsert it, to see if the four files somehow reäppear in the Trash, and if they disappear from or remain in the new folder.

Empty the Trash while the drive is attached. Like every other volume, it has its own Trash folder.

Hi Melophage,

I'm having a similar problem. My pen drive is a Sandisk 8gb. Only today I noticed that when inserted it was displaying a folder in the Trash which wouldn't go away even when Emptying it.

I did what you said and moved it to the flash drive and now the Trash is succesfully empty. However I can't get rid of it by moving it to the Trash and emptying it again.

I have no idea what folder that is, it has a name that I recognize but I haven't created it recently, specially because my computer is new so I'm sure this file isn't here and it appears to be empty. I'll try to delete it in a Windows computer tomorrow and tell if this worked.

Have you any idea what could be happening? I only wonder because I'm no technology savvy...

Thanks!

deboraesc,

again, this is just a guess, but perhaps there’s a hidden subfolder inside of this folder, which is preventing the folder from being deleted? When you’re at your Windows computer, try looking inside of the folder to see if there’s anything inside of it before you try to delete the folder; your findings, reported in your reply here, might help people with a similar situation who read this discussion in the future.

Hello Melophage,

So I plugged my pen drive in a Windows and yes, inside the folder there appeared an image file which the Mac wasn't showing (in a Mac it was appearing as an empty, but undeletable folder).

So I erased it from there and now the folder (and file) are gone.

Curious though, I believe this image file must have been erased almost a year ago. No idea why it reappeared.

Well, that was it. Thanks a lot!