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Hard drive accessibility via Mac / .trash files created in external drives
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<blockquote data-quote="Khris" data-source="post: 776160" data-attributes="member: 55831"><p>1) Macs can only READ NTFS drives, they can no write to them. In order to make your external HD read/writable by OSX, you'll need to format it as FAT32 instead of NTFS.</p><p></p><p>2) If you delete filed on a USB drive, OSX places them in the trash, and these trash files are how it keeps track of them. If you empty the trash before ejecting the media, you shouldn't see them on there. If you eject the media before deleting the trash, those files will remain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Khris, post: 776160, member: 55831"] 1) Macs can only READ NTFS drives, they can no write to them. In order to make your external HD read/writable by OSX, you'll need to format it as FAT32 instead of NTFS. 2) If you delete filed on a USB drive, OSX places them in the trash, and these trash files are how it keeps track of them. If you empty the trash before ejecting the media, you shouldn't see them on there. If you eject the media before deleting the trash, those files will remain. [/QUOTE]
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