CleanEject
version: date:	1.5 29-7-2010
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CleanEject

When you connect USB-disks, camera's, GPS devices and similar to the Mac several invisible files and folders will be generated; when putting files on it several more invisible files will be created.
When you delete files, they are moved to the folder .Trashes still taking up disk space; to get rid of them you need to empty the Trashcan.
When the device is connected to a Windows PC the invisible files will be visible.
These phenomena are generally not wanted, and in certain cases they even can disrupt the proper working of the device.

To prevent this the program CleanEject was created. This program erases the following folders and files:

• .Trashes/
• .Spotlight-V100/
• .fseventsd/
• .TemporaryItems/
• .DS_Store
• all files starting with ._

After removal the device is disconnected immediately (when you would do this in Finder, some of these files would reappear).

The program operates only on FAT16 of FAT32 formatted disks; in the case of Mac OS Extended formatted disks the removal of these files is usually unwanted. That's why CleanEject won't show these disks.

Using the program is simple: start the program en select the disk(s) (the program selects them all by default) you want to clean and disconnect; click the OK button and the tasks are executed. With large disks containing lots of folders and files it can take a while because the whole disk is searched for files that will be removed. When the icon disappears from the desktop, you can physically disconnect the device.

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