USBclean not removing files since moving to macOS Sequoia
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Hi,
I've noticed that dot underscore files are not being removed by USBclean on my USB drives and SD cards any more. The log shows errors like "<filename> couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it."I've tried various methods (including chmod 777) but to no avail.
Is this something to do with the new System Integrity Protection stuff in macOS Sequoia? Is there a fix?
Matthew
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@marvbloke Have you given USBclean Full Disk Access in System Settings?
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USBclean seems to be removing files like '.DS_Store' and '.Spotlight_V100'. But it's the "dot underscore" files that won't budge. So for example, if there's a file called 'CosmicPayback.tap', it won't remove the '._CosmicPayback.tap' file, and gives the error:
/Volumes/RETRO/Modern Spectrum/Cosmic Payback/._CosmicPayback.tap
“._CosmicPayback.tap” couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it.I've tried this on multiple USB drives and various SD cards.
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And here's an extract from my USBclean log file showing the issue (which comes up for all '._' files):
The following errors occurred:
/Volumes/RETROGAMES/Spectrum Development/AGD4.7X4_beta/._AGD4.7x4betaGc.tap
“._AGD4.7x4betaGc.tap” couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it.
/Volumes/RETROGAMES/Spectrum Development/ZXFM/Other/._Emma1.dsk
“._Emma1.dsk” couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it.
/Volumes/RETROGAMES/Spectrum Development/BimMobiles/._BimMobiles - listing.txt
“._BimMobiles - listing.txt” couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it. -
Now this is interesting - USBclean has no problem removing the dot-underscore files on the same USB drives/SD cards using my other Mac which is running macOS Sequoia 15.1 (not the 15.2 public beta). So maybe it's worth you testing USBclean against the betas for 15.2?
