Ghost files on yosamite (usb)

hello all,
So When I fill up my flash drive with home made videos, pictures or any time of file when I go to load the files on another device such as my tv, or a windows machine I get a flash drive full of really annoying ghost files I have to sit there and deleting, I also see lots of files and folders with names that start with "." such as .trash and duplicate files of the actual files that do nothing but get in the way.
Is there any way to stop my mac from creating these files and folders? such as code or some file or command I can type into terminal? I did try a few apps but I rather not have them due to my 512gb ssd space being limited so I would rather not use up the space, even though the apps are a few MB I would rather be able to do it with out an app.
I did a google search but can only find app solutions,
TIA

I do delete them every time, its just hassle having to do so every time as some times there are a lot of files and folders that are created, plus some times I have to plug the drive into my windows machine simply to delete the files as they show up when I go to use the usb on my tv and not my windows machine. which is why I was hoping for there to be a way for osx to stop creating them on my machine.

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