I dont know if it happens to other people's mac but mine whenever i delete file or data from my flash drive with me mac it leaves exactly the same size of the same files i deleted in a .Trash, _DStore folder. plus how can i enable show/hidden files on mac OS X 10.4?? just like windows.
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