IMPORTANT: Windows Users & Cleaning USB AppleDouble Files

Feb 08, 2026

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If you bought a USB, and you use a Windows machine, there may appear some AppleDouble files of the content. These are hidden on Mac, but they appear on the USB on a Windows machine and are usually around 4 KB in size. An example may be the following:

REAL FILE NAME: Venerable_Day_of_the_Sun_#19

APPLEDOUBLE: ._Venerable_Day_of_the_Sun_#19

AppleDouble files,…

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