._!

[Richard Gaskin]

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.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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