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External Drives on Computers - Security

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vikcorp

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When you hook up an external drive to a computer (MBP in my case), say you transferred 3000 files straight from that external to another external daisy chained to it.

Is there somewhere in OSX where it might build a bare structure of all the files that were moved across the computer? Obviously not the actual fields but things like the names and basic structure?

I was just curious because I do a lot of contract work and I carry my external to my client's computers and things.

So I want to make sure that there is no way that my data is somehow getting referenced on their computers.

Cause it seems like when you hookup a external with 3000 fileson it the hard drive works like crazy when you first hook it up, so I was just curious.


 
It's possible that the drive's being indexed by Spotlight when you plug it in, not really sure though.
 
Spotlight indexes it, but I don't know of any way to read the index to get an idea of what files are there. I am sure that a painfully enterprising and industrious individual could do it, but if he is will to go to that much work, he is going to get your data anyway.
 
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