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18 questions linked to/from Why are dot underscore ._ files created, and how can I avoid them?
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Spotlight is disabled but "._file_name" still get created on external drives that I plug in [duplicate]
I want to prevent my MAC from creating ._file_name files on external memory drives that I plug into it. I think I've turned off Spotlight completely. However, such files keep getting created. How to ...
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Dot underscore (._) files reappear [duplicate]
I have an external USB drive that is formatted with ExFAT. I'm on MacOS Ventura. I noticed that some of my files on that drive have attributes that I deleted with xattr -cr. The attributes vanished ...
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Dot-files and other meta data on non-Mac network shares
Is there a way to tell Finder to not use (or worry about) the ._* files and other meta-data files it normally tries to use when it's on a network share?
Currently when I'm in Finder and I try to copy ...
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Is it possible to mount SharePoint as a volume in 10.6?
Background
My office uses:
Microsoft SharePoint to store and version our documents
Microsoft Office, with Microsoft Document Connection to connect to the SharePoint site.
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Can Finder ...
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How to prevent MacOS from adding dot underscore files (._whatever.html )in zip archives?
Our organisation receives zip files from Mac users which contain a ._ file in addition to the file we expect. In the past this was due to resource fork and data fork encoding limitations on other file ...
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How to disable ._ AppleDouble files for SMB?
I have a small problem. I don't want that our Macs here create the ._ files to the network drive. For example when you copy an image over the finder to the SMB storage.
Is there a way to disable this ...
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How to show dot underscore ._ files?
I want the OSX to show all kind of hidden files including ._ files too. I do not know exactly what I did, but I am successful in seeing .DS_STORE files, but not ._ files. Any idea how to achieve that?
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Will setting a cron job to delete ._ shadow files on a linux share work?
I recently tarred up a directory to send to a remote linux system. When I untarred it, there were ._ files tossed into the target directory.
I did a search and found articles of people being ...
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Prevent Apple Double Format Files on Remote Share/Disk
I have a web application on a local Linux Apache server that scans a folder for new files and then processes them.
I have an SMB share to this folder and I use Path Finder to copy files over from my ...
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Why are almost-blank ._ files being created by macOS and applications?
Using information found on this site and across the web, I have discovered how to transform most of the binary data in a ._ file to readable text.
However, most of the files that I have examined look ...
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With WebDAV provided by Microsoft SharePoint, how can users of OS X minimise risks of corruption and multiuser overwrites?
There are various OS X approaches to using the WebDAV service provided by Microsoft SharePoint.
Integrity of data
Answers to this question focus on integrity:
when a file is used by a single user
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How can I back-up an external drive while preserving attributes, folder creation date and showing progress?
Final goal
Create a copy of all files one external hard drive to another external hard drive, both formatted as HFS+.
Preserve the folder creation date.
Preserve finder colour label.
During the copy ...
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See all Apple Hidden Files
I came from Windows 2 years ago and I knew there were hidden files in all OS's. As Windows has the simple option to show them to you, I supposed that if I contacted Apple support they would tell me ...
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What do ._Desktop and ._Library do?
In my home directory, there are two files called ._Desktop and ._Library. They have read and write permissions, but cannot be read, even with root.
What do these files do? Is there any way to modify ...
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How to migrate Nintendo Switch's MicroSD data using a Mac?
I am considering upgrading my Nintendo Switch's storage by getting a MicroSD card with a larger capacity and then copying over the games, savegame data, etc to the new card.
Although Nintendo has a ...
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