What are SYSTEM~1 files?

[Randy]

These are being written to my SD card when I use the card to add files from my windows machine.  These files are starting to proliferate, got two of them on my D drive, also, can't remove the folder although I can remove the contents. Wondering how this may be screwing up my file system on the US.  Thanks

[larrylaffer]

They are "hidden files" (I guess for indexing?) that windows put all over the place. You can use kobold to delete them but if you insert the sd card again on a windows computer you will get them again ?

[ParanoidLittleMan]

Yeah, Win tends to write some not polite things on disks, Flash cards, which are not useful under some other OS, and you can not prevent it. Even if delete it in Windows self (best with Total Commander, set to see hidden/system files) it will create them soon again. Writes even in MBR if don't like what sees there.

Best thing what we can do is to filter them out on Atari, so they don't cause errors, problems. That's called LFN filtering - long filename filtering, and is present in my driver SW, iTOS . TOS is just not ready to work with special fields of LFN.

And so far I saw only up to 2 System Volume Information or SYSTEM~1 (or other number at end)  as 8.3 filename  folders . . There are couple short index files inside. So, it does not take much place.

Other solution is to go with Linux, maybe some fruit ?

Well, maybe is worth to make some Atari PRG what cleans it off, so at least it will be not present until next Win 10 attachment .