USB flash drive MAC and WIN

Hi All,
I have a problem with my USB flash drive- The files that I copy from my mac appear as multiple copies on the winXP computer and in Parallels, the ones that I copy from windows appear as locked Linux files!! on the Mac.
What is going on here ??
TIA
Pankaj

Your flash drive needs to be set to "Ignore ownership". With the disk selected, get its info window then look in that window fopr the ownership setting.
The reason you see two files on Windows is that the filesystem is seeing Mac resource forks for each file.
Yeah, Windows sücks. They pretend Mac does not even exist.

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