All files on USB turn into .ink files

Whenever I put a flashdirve on my macbook all the files and folders on the usb turn into .ink files and I cant open them on a mac. I need to solve this problem ASAP because Im afraid to put my hard disk and loose all the files on it. This happened to 4 of my USBs and i have no backup of some of the stuff on them.

I spoke with the techs at apple support, they likewise were stumped. His suggestion was that I reformat the drives as Mac OSX journaled. He thought the FAT32 may have been the issue as it is not natively supported by the Airport Extreme, but also was not positive since it is one specific folder out of 500 or so on my drive that is having the problem... he thought it may be the content. Unfortunately, the content in that folder is not different from any other folder on the drive. It is set to use accounts and not a single password. All the settings for permissions, etc are correct to allow anyone to access/read/write to the drive and folder... really baffled.
Going to try formatting the drive and then giving it another go.
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