Re: Dot files
Re: Dot files
- Subject: Re: Dot files
- From: Ruth Bygrave <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:49:12 +0100
On 18 Jun 2006, at 11:26, Merrie wrote:
These are normally invisible files and I think they only show up if
the drive you are using is formatted for DOS. So perhaps use Disk
Utility to reformat your flash drive to Apple format? Reformatting
will delete all the files you have on your flash so copy over to
your hard drive any files you want to keep.
Not in general particularly useful AFAIK. I have some vague idea that
the modern big powerful file systems (NTFS for XP, Mac OS Extended
Journaled for Mac) don't offer particular benefits for small drives
as opposed to large modern hard drives, and you then lose the
particular benefits of being able to use them cross-platform (in an
Internet cafe, at a friend's house, at work), which is the most
distinct benefit of using FAT32 on small drives. Since I'm using my
flash drive cross-platform (generally to move files for backup to the
system with the DVD burner, which runs XP), I would get no benefit
from this.
OTOH, for somebody who's particularly worried about security, adding
a non-standard OS to their backup drive might actually be a plus
point, although they'd be more likely to think about encryption.
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