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RESOURCES I'VE LOOKED AT ALREADY

MY PROBLEM

existing solution seems to only solve for removal of System Volume Information on:

  • Windows
  • NTFS formatted external HD

whereas I'd like to solve for removal of System Volume Information and $RECYCLE.BIN on:

  • MacOS
  • ExFat formatted external HD

additional complication is I'm not exactly sure how to interact w/ $RECYCLE.BIN; seems to be a directory but doesn't respond to normal Bash commands

$RECYCLE.BIN doesn't respond to mv command

Zach Valenta
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  • What happens if you just select them & Cmd/delete, same as any other file? Mac doesn't use these, so it won't consider them special in any way. – Tetsujin Feb 07 '18 at 07:22
  • very true! guess I wanted to see if there were any known best practices or gotchas out there before deletion just bc the situation is terra incognita for me. – Zach Valenta Feb 07 '18 at 23:47

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recyclebin is holding the deleted files on the external disk when they were on the disk before deletion. you should empty the trashbin on the mac when the external is still connected to empty that recyclebin. You can safely delete all mac specific items on an external with a tool called BlueHarvest.

LexS user87973
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