User level: Level 1 (9 points)Under Mojave, is there any way of clearing the trash on a memory stick without also clearing all the trash on the iMac hard drive
Posted on Nov 30, 2019 4:53 AM
User level: Level 10 (208,430 points)Nov 30, 2019 10:05 AM in response to JBowfin
Using Disk Utility.app you can always reformat the USB stick to erase all data.
How to erase a disk for Mac - Apple Support
User level: Level 10 (131,878 points)Nov 30, 2019 5:35 AM in response to JBowfin
Be more descriptive of what "trash" means to you? Are you referring to ._blah files? If those, then consider the dot_clean command in the Terminal. Replace MyUSBStick with your mounted device name.
man dot_clean
./dot_clean -m /Volumes/MyUSBStick
Nov 30, 2019 7:50 AM in response to VikingOSX
I am wanting to copy a large folder of mp3 files to a USB stick, and did not select quite the correct folder, so deleted it from the stick. When I tried to copy the correct folder the transfer was refused because there was not sufficient capacity remaining empty on the stick. I was told to try About This Mac > Storage. That shows that the stick is indeed nearly full, but offers no way of clearing it.
I am afraid that I not confident enough to follow your advice on using a command in Terminal, without further Help!
Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/250902544