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Very, very nice and helpful! I probably wouldn't do it exactly this way on my system, but it's always good to see other approaches to this annoying and entirely

Very, very nice and helpful! I probably wouldn't do it exactly this way on my system, but it's always good to see other approaches to this annoying and entirely unnecessary problem. One of my biggest pet peeves about macOS is its tendency to leave its "droppings" all over my SD Card filesystems and network shares, and I'm constantly searching for a nice clean, transparent way to fix this bug since Apple seems to have no intention of doing it themselves. So rude to be using my filesystem as their personal dumping ground for crap. I would add ".fseventsd" and ".Spotlight-V100" folders to the cleanup targets, too.

VogonPoetry 2y ago
Try: touch "${vol}/.metadata_never_index" touch "${vol}/.fseventsd/no_log" First one stops Spotlight. After creating the stop file, the .Spotlight-V100 directory can be removed.
- ryandrake 2y ago
  Nice, but you've traded a garbage .directory for a garbage .file. The goal is zero garbage.
  - msephton 2y ago
    I don't mind a garbage hidden file/folder
msephton 2y ago
(author here) I'm interested to know how you'd do it differently? Always interested to hear about new angles and approaches. Cheers!
- ryandrake 2y ago
  I guess I'd rather do it as a LaunchAgent or some other way to do it periodically in the background.
  - msephton 2y ago
    But it only needs to be done once on eject. If you clean periodically the files will return in between.