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ntfs-3g: its creating weird files (start with a period) when writing to NTFS volume
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timmerk
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May 3, 2008 , 05:07 PM
 
When I'm writing files to a NTFS volume from my Mac, and then I boot into Windows, I see all these almost 0K files with the same name of the files that it copied, but they start with a period. Any idea how to turn this off and what is it for?

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May 3, 2008 , 05:30 PM
 
That's an OS X behavior when writing to any partition type except HFS. No way to avoid it, but they're fine to delete.
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May 3, 2008 , 07:52 PM
 
They're files for metadata that would normally be stored as a different fork of the same file on HFS.
     
   
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