Comments on: Spotlight-V100 and Trashes Folders On USB Flash Drives

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:19:41 +0000

this article is very useful. thnx

By: kiers

kiers — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 09:05:53 +0000

It’s NOT just about Mac Computers. I have an UBUNTU system where i often have to share the thumb drive on the road with public windows computers. My thumb drive picked up this .trashes nonsense along with .spotlight v100 folders. despite NEVER having connected to a Mac!! THESE ARE FAT filesystem viruses.

By: Vaughan

Vaughan — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:25:17 +0000

Thanks Martin

Just re-installed a fresh system on laptop and two home PC’s and there is a virus going around that hides in hidden files so I was most relieved to read your advice

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:35:19 +0000

Spot(light) on description for us non-Macites. Thank you, /s/ Bob (pun intended ;).

By: richard

richard — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:23:56 +0000

Deleting the files will not make any difference..
If you need to send data from a MAC to a PC then it will simply make the ‘hidden’ folders again, it cannot be helped as the MAC automatically produces these so it can handle the data correctly.

Not a virus, nor will it take up much space on a external storage device, it is simply there to help :)

By: john

john — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:54:28 +0000

Thank you for the clear explanation.
To Alex with lost data, if still lost, and you have not overwritten the discs with more up to date files, contact me on ahah95@gmail.com with “alex lost” in the subject and a phone number and i will help you. AH

By: vicky

vicky — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:29:57 +0000

Thanks, very helpful.

Have a good one.

By: fred

fred — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:20:36 +0000

Very Helpful. Thanks!!

By: Andreas

Andreas — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:49:45 +0000

Thank you, good to know.

By: Cosmética y belleza

Cosmética y belleza — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:59:17 +0000

But can we remove or not this 2 files on my USb key?

By: alex

alex — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:02:37 +0000

i have recently “lost” most of my data from 2 external hdds after connecting them to a w-lan usb remote hub (md86097). the only files that are visible on the hdd is the .spotlight-V100 the .trashes and 2 files ._. trashes and d26.tmp.

my system is vista.

dose any one have ideas as to retreaving my data

much apreciation
alex

By: windows

windows — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:35:22 +0000

but i have a file with name U¬U¬ in it . I think because of this file i cant delete spotlight and trashes.
Please find me a way to delete it.

By: jj

jj — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:13:16 +0000

thanks, this was useful, I just found the two hidden olders and didn1t know if I can delete them or not. Thanks!

By: cc

cc — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:28:50 +0000

thanks. it was helpful :)

By: Emeric

Emeric — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:42:32 +0000

Is it possible to disable with an option on the mac to prevent the creation of these files ?

By: raimong

raimong — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:03:43 +0000

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.

By: Machine Translation

Machine Translation — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:02 +0000

Thanks you. Useful information.

By: 'cheryl

'cheryl — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:56:42 +0000

that’a really helpful. (: thanks you help me solved my problem too (:
good day to you.