A friend of mine contacted me recently with a problem that he could not figure out on his own. He discovered that two hidden folders had been created on his USB flash drive. One folder was named .spotlight-V100 while the other was named .trashes. This puzzled him as he was certain that they were not created by him or any program that he used to work with. A quick research on the Internet solved the problem.
The .spotlight-v100 and .trashes folders were created automatically by an Apple Macintosh computer system that the USB flash drive was plugged in before. These two folders are automatically created whenever a USB flash drive is connected to a computer system running an Apple Mac operating system. Spotlight is a indexing process on the Mac that will save the information that are gathered in the .spotlight-v100 directory.
The .trashes folder on the other hand is simply a trash folder for the specific drive which is also created by Apple Macintosh computer systems. Windows users can simply delete both hidden directories to free up disk space.
There is however no need to worry that these two folders have been created by malicious software.
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that’a really helpful. (: thanks you help me solved my problem too (:
good day to you.
Thanks you. Useful information.
hi,
i have this in my external hard drive as well. i remember copying files from my friend who has a macbook. so most likely that caused the creation of these folders.
my concern is this: when i used my hard drive in my machine in the office, our antivirus said my hard drive has malware. that freaked me out. if i have .trashes and .spotlight-v100 in my office machine, can i also delete them? will it not affect my machine’s performance? i’m using windows xp btw.