Deleting "._*" files

Andre Garzia andre at andregarzia.com
Mon Aug 11 01:03:48 EDT 2008


Richard,

try a command like:

ls -a

it should give you the dot files.

Cheers
Andre

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> When you copy files from OS X to a non-Apple drive, Apple insists on also
> copying a metadata file with the same name of the one you're copying
> preceded with "._" (e.g., "MySong.mp3" will result in two files, one named
> "MySong.mp3" and another useless one named "._MySong.mp3").
>
> I could have sworn I used to be able to delete these types of files using
> Rev, but I've tried on a few USB devices formatted with FAT-16 and not even
> "the detailed files" shows any of these dot files, even as the device itself
> shows me they're there.
>
> Anyone know how to identify and delete these annoyance files in OS X
> 10.4.11?
>
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