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From: Jolly Roger on 10 May 2010 10:21
In article <0001HW.C80D7BFE0000CE42B01029BF(a)news.virginmedia.com>,
Mike Lane <mike.lane.usenet(a)ntlworld.co.uk> wrote:

> I had the same problem with my Garmin GPSmap76. Any attempt at reading files
> on the internal memory or the flash card crashed the gps unit (due to the
> hidden Mac files according to Garmin support).

It seems ludicrous to me that it should be acceptable behavior for a
device to crash or malfunction simply because files it will never use
and shouldn't care about exist on the storage medium it uses!

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From: Jolly Roger on 10 May 2010 10:22
In article <2010051015434216807-2PPaleo(a)godisdeadcom>,
doublePlusPaleo <2PPaleo(a)godisdead.com> wrote:

> On 2010-05-10 11:12:55 +1000, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> said:
>
> > Had a scary episode which rendered my GPS inoperative.
> >
> >
> > Plugged the GPS into my Mac, set it to USB-disk mode, resulting in tge
> > Mac mouting the FAT disk in the GPS' micro SD card. Got to see the
> > various .GPX files as well as the map database file.
> >
> > However, the GPS would no longer reboot after that. Had to remove the
> > card for it to reboot properly.
> >
> > Turns out it doesn't like some of the files/directories that get created
> > by the Mac (.Trashes ._Trashes, .Spotlight and others).
> >
> > I was able to insert the SD card into the GPS and remount it, and use
> > command line to remove all those hidden files, and then used the finder
> > to dismount the disk (just trag it to the trash) and then the GPS
> > rebooted fine.
> >
> >
> > At what point does the Mac created all those hidden files/Directories ?
> > First time the FINDER opens the disk ? As the disk is mounted ? or when
> > the disk is first modified ?
> >
> > Is there a way to tell the Mac to never create those files for FAT disks?
>
> Those files perpetually gave me the shits too. I was getting
> ".DS_Store" files magically appearing in my Eclipse projects and some
> inevitably found their way into deployment packages to cause various
> kinds of strange errors at deployment time.
>
> The problem was fixed in my case by switching to the Windows Eclipse
> platform for Java software development.

Talk about overkill. : ) All you needed to do was remove those files
from packages before deploying them.

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From: Mike Lane on 10 May 2010 11:22
Jolly Roger wrote on May 10, 2010:

> In article <0001HW.C80D7BFE0000CE42B01029BF(a)news.virginmedia.com>,
> Mike Lane <mike.lane.usenet(a)ntlworld.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I had the same problem with my Garmin GPSmap76. Any attempt at reading
>> files
>> on the internal memory or the flash card crashed the gps unit (due to the
>> hidden Mac files according to Garmin support).
>
> It seems ludicrous to me that it should be acceptable behavior for a
> device to crash or malfunction simply because files it will never use
> and shouldn't care about exist on the storage medium it uses!
>
>

I agree, it's a bug in the Garmin unit. But since it exists one either has to
discard the gps unit, or work around it.

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From: Jolly Roger on 10 May 2010 12:16
In article <0001HW.C80DE3620006F990B01029BF(a)news.virginmedia.com>,
Mike Lane <mike.lane.usenet(a)ntlworld.co.uk> wrote:

> Jolly Roger wrote on May 10, 2010:
>
> > In article <0001HW.C80D7BFE0000CE42B01029BF(a)news.virginmedia.com>,
> > Mike Lane <mike.lane.usenet(a)ntlworld.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> I had the same problem with my Garmin GPSmap76. Any attempt at reading
> >> files
> >> on the internal memory or the flash card crashed the gps unit (due to the
> >> hidden Mac files according to Garmin support).
> >
> > It seems ludicrous to me that it should be acceptable behavior for a
> > device to crash or malfunction simply because files it will never use
> > and shouldn't care about exist on the storage medium it uses!
>
> I agree, it's a bug in the Garmin unit. But since it exists one either has to
> discard the gps unit, or work around it.

Luckily, the files can easily be removed.

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From: Wes Groleau on 10 May 2010 17:53
On 05-10-2010 10:22, Jolly Roger wrote:
> doublePlusPaleo<2PPaleo(a)godisdead.com> wrote:
>> The problem was fixed in my case by switching to the Windows Eclipse
>> platform for Java software development.
>
> Talk about overkill. : ) All you needed to do was remove those files
> from packages before deploying them.

Or fix the design bug that causes your code to not ignore them.

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