Hi,
I recently tried to delete everything on one of my usbs so that someone could borrow it. I thought I had deleted everything but when I plugged it into my windows os desktop computer, there was a hidden .trashes file that had all the deleted files. I deleted that [and later learned that to successfully clear it off from a mac os i would have had to delete my trash bin while the usb was still plugged in]. anyway, i'm wondering if deleting the trash in a windows os really would have deleted everything? it showed that the space was free but i'm just a bit apprehensive as there were some things i wouldn't necessarily want the person to see haha
I recently tried to delete everything on one of my usbs so that someone could borrow it. I thought I had deleted everything but when I plugged it into my windows os desktop computer, there was a hidden .trashes file that had all the deleted files. I deleted that [and later learned that to successfully clear it off from a mac os i would have had to delete my trash bin while the usb was still plugged in]. anyway, i'm wondering if deleting the trash in a windows os really would have deleted everything? it showed that the space was free but i'm just a bit apprehensive as there were some things i wouldn't necessarily want the person to see haha