._!

[Bob Sneidar]

As an interesting side affect, and a treatise on why it’s never a good idea to do things this way, if I put Toshiba copier firmware on a USB drive using OS X, these hidden files end up also on the USB drive. Failing to remove these hidden files in Windows before attempting to apply the firmware update will COMPLETELY BORK THE COPIER REQUIRING THE NVRAM TO BE REBURNED!!!!! This requires a special tool that is not cheap. 

Good thing I backed up the copier first because it results in the copier reverting to factory defaults. This is a real crappy way to save file info. I like the old resource/data fork method Apple used to use. Not sure why they got rid of that. 

Bob S


On Aug 26, 2014, at 16:01 , Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:

> 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