When Do You Reformat Your USB?
There may come a time when you absolutely cannot delete files from the .Trash folder Linux places on your USB. You try in Windows and they disappear, but when you refresh the folder, they are back again. You try in Linux but you simply get read only errors. No matter what you do you cannot delete those damn files. And if you have a look at what the hell is holding up the works, you may very well see something like this:
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No, this is not a new file naming convention I have adopted. They just end up that way. The solution? It’s time to reformat your USB, as FAT, of course.
Categories: Hardware, Operating Systems
