Q: How to repair and avoid corrupted filenames on FAT32 USB sticks?
When I use an USB stick both on Windows and on OSX some filenames on the stick are changing/corrupted. Originally the filenames are like doc19941720151116122616.pdf. But suddenly the name of one, two of appr. a hundred files are like DOC199~1.PDF. I have figured out, that such changes/corruptions doesn't occur if OSX is prevented to create the typical invisible files/folders like .fseventd .DS_Store etc. For this purpose I am using the application Blue Harvest.
I've read that the filename DOC199~1.PDF ist the real name of the file, which is stored in the file allocation table (FAT), but the filenme doc19941720151116122616.pdf is stored in the file itself. But when I open the file DOC199~1.PDF with Textedit.app I do not find this filename.
How can I find and repair the original filename of DOC199~1.PDF?
And how can I prevent the USB stick from OSX typical invisible files/folders, so that such files are never written on the stick, independently whether Blue Harvest is installed on a Mac or not? There should be a script or something else on the stick which prevents OSX from doing its job.
Thanks in advance for your support!
Kind regards, Friedrich
Posted on Dec 2, 2015 4:40 AM