._!

[Paul Hibbert]

Richard,

It seems turning off the '._*' file creation could cause problems with the Apple Finder and some MS Office apps.

After a quick search I found an old entry on Mac OS X Hints (MacWorld forum) that states "using the 'mv' and 'cp' commands (in Terminal) will move or copy files without the ._ files.", so maybe you could use a shell command to do the copying.

I just tried a quick test and although I'm not seeing any '._*' files, I noticed that using the 'cp' command doesn't copy the '.DS_Store' file so it may be worth a try to see if avoids copying the '._*' files too.

Article link:- http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20020217094739452

Paul


On 2014-08-26, at 2:40 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> E.g., this:
> 
>   MyFile1.txt
>   MyFile2.txt
> 
> ...becomes:
> 
>   ._MyFile1.txt
>   ._MyFile2.txt
>   MyFile1.txt
>   MyFile2.txt
> 
> This is course annoying, and worse, for many people I run into it's also confusing as well.
> 
> Strangely, the otherwise-usability-conscious Apple has provided no Preferences setting in the Finder for this sad behavior.
> 
> Anyone here know if there's some command-line option we can set to tell the Mac to stop doing that?
> 
> I used to write scripts to remove them after the fact, but it would be much simpler/saner to just turn that off altogether.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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