Comments on: .Trashes, .fseventsd, and .Spotlight-V100

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 03:17:12 +0000

Hi, everyone!
First of all, I’d like to mention that I’m NOT a confident user and that’s why I want to draw the audience’s attention to the unanswered question:

If these files are already on the removable drive, can they just be deleted without causing any corruption, or is there a specific process to remove them?

I have those files on my removable drive and know for sure that they are not to be removed without a specific procedure. Would appreciate the detailed description of what I have to do.

By: John

John — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:45:08 +0000

Can you write a create a file called .metadata_never_index in the root directory of the removable drive in the MAC because Windows XP will not let you - It has to have a filename. But you can create a *directory* that starts with a dot in Windows.

By: Gary Taylor

Gary Taylor — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:17:02 +0000

Not using my macbook for development anymore, will NOT work with a company that uses macbooks. Got my USB drive back and had to erase around 4000ish useless 4k files off my 1T drive, it was like i didn’t even recognize the drive anymore. If your company uses macbooks and requires you to plug in my usb drive to do whatever task you are paid to do.. you just lost my business..

By: porg

porg — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:55:37 +0000

Sadly the big software companies tend to enforce a culture of opt-out rather than opt-in, as other example show, i.e. Google’s automatic WLAN SSID indexing except if YOU put “_nomap” at the end of your SSID.

By: M Nicole

M Nicole — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:35:55 +0000

Thanks a lot for this tip !
It’s now some time that I cannot accept longer this ugly stuff !
Hope there is “macports” with this apple system

Here is a script I made immediately (tested; but simple), if it can avoid some minutes of work for others…

— script begin —

#!/bin/sh
#
# Tip for putting off those apple ugly shitty dirs
# ( .Spotlight-V100 / .Trashes / .fseventsd )
#
# Change to the concerned directory for running this script

dir1=”./.Spotlight-V100″
dir2=”./.Trashes”
dir3=”./.fseventsd”

tag1=”.metadata_never_index”
tag2=”.Trashes”
tag3=”no_log”

echo “Removing recursively dirs [$dir1, $dir2, $dir3] …”
rm -rf $dir1 $dir2 $dir3

# — spotlight off
#
touch $tag1
echo “Tagfile [$tag1] created.”

# — trash off
#
touch $tag2
echo “Tagfile [$tag2] created.”

# — fseventsd off
#
mkdir $dir3 && touch $dir3/$tag3 && \
(echo “Tagfile [$dir3/$tag3] created.”) || \
(echo “ERROR tagfile [$dir3/$tag3] “; exit 1)

chmod 400 $tag1 $tag2 $dir3/$tag3

— script end —

By: Nostalgia

Nostalgia — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 01:35:10 +0000

Now, for anyone defending those damn mac files, keep in mind that I don’t have a mac, and I don’t want one putting any file on my flash drive unless it’s told to do so by a user. Another interesting bug you overlooked, the mac also, for some strange reason known only to Steve Jobs and sea slugs, changes the icon of the flash drive to some messed up file folder. I don’t want my friends’ computers to do this to my flash drive. The reason as to why Steve Jobs has had to counter every innovation he made with the lack of a windows innovation (i.e. mouse pointer speed precision), I do not know. I also do not understand why Macs have to alienate themselves from windows machines, a move that can only work if you control the better halves of both the market and the software (Macs do not dominate either of these fields). Mistaking my flash drive as a porcelain throne is just another reason I can’t stand those damn macs.

By: Allen Huffman

Allen Huffman — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:41:02 +0000

I have been fighting these files for several years now. When I plug in an UltraProjector (solid state projector, http://www.ultraprojector.com), the Mac put those files there and the stupid ROCKCHIP player hardware in this projector just locks up. Because of this, making these files would probably not help.

But, the Eject to Windows can simplify the command-line “rm” option I have been using to kill the “.*” files.

I am glad I found this post — I am in the process of documenting how to use the UltraProjector on a Mac, and I fear my list of Terminal commands might have been a bit overwhelming to casual users

By: Elvis

Elvis — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:13:37 +0000

When I use the lock switch on a SD card, OS/X freezes as soon as I plug the card in. Then the computer will not work until it is turned off and back on again

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:10:17 +0000

“If you want to stop this from happening, you have to put some special files on that disk before you plug it in.”

Um, catch-22 anyone?

By: André

André — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:10:30 +0000

Take a look at Eject for Windows. Eject for Windows is a small application for Mac OS X that removes hidden files in a USB flash drive mounted on your Desktop and eject it.

http://www011.upp.so-net.ne.jp/decafish/EjectForWindows/EjectForWindowsE.html