Probably trying to “hide in plain sight”. Unless someone wrote a virus that uses the same name (.spotlight v100 or trashes). There is however no need to worry that these two folders have been created by malicious software. Windows users can simply delete both hidden directories to free up disk space. trashes folder on the other hand is simply a trash folder for the specific drive which is also created by Apple Macintosh computer systems. Among the information it records are sizes, modification dates, types, creation dates and other information related to the files on the USB flash drive. The Spotlight program creates a virtual index of all files and folders to speed up search on Macintosh systems. Spotlight is an indexing process on the Mac that will save the information that are gathered in the. These two folders are automatically created whenever a USB flash drive is connected to a computer system running an Apple Mac operating system. trashes folders were created automatically by an Apple Macintosh computer system that the USB flash drive was plugged in before. A quick research on the Internet solved the problem. This puzzled him as he was certain that they were not created by him or any program that he used to work with. spotlight-V100 while the other was named. He discovered that two hidden folders had been created on his USB flash drive. A friend of mine contacted me recently with a problem that he could not figure out on his own.
