._!

[Mark Wieder]

Richard Gaskin <ambassador at ...> writes:

> When copying files from a Mac to a volume formatted with NTFS or other 
> Windows-compatible format, for each Mac file it also creates a second 
> file with the same name but with "._" prepended to it.

Those are Finder information files. The OSX Finder would cease to work
without them. I'm sure at some point someone thought this was a good idea.

> I used to write scripts to remove them after the fact, but it would be 
> much simpler/saner to just turn that off altogether.

Removing them by script afterwards is the way to go.

-- 
 Mark Wieder
 ahsoftware at gmail.com