[Macola]

Couldn't find this in a search (here or Versiontracker), but...

Is there a utility that deletes/prevents copying OS X invisible files (the "._filename" variety) when copying over to a Windows shared volume? I'm one of a few Macs connecting to a large PC network, and these files are very annoying to other users, and even to myself. I can obviously delete them manually, but I'd rather not have them copied over in the first place.

[Macola]

Help??

[Colddiver2]

I have yet to find a way to prevent this myself. Sharity used to have an option "disable resource forks" or something like that. However, in the last version, the option disappeared (or got renamed). Having this option checked prevented the appearance of these ._* files but also prevented any copying, renaming and saving from the Finder or any Mac app. Files could only be copied, moved or renamed using the terminal (cp command).

Colddiver

[Stefan]

there's a free contexual menu plugin called GrimRipper that deletes the recource fork

[CharlesS]

This command line should delete the ._files.

find <root directory containing the dot files> -name ._\* -exec rm {} \;

This command line should delete .DS_Store files.

find <root directory containing the dot files> -name .DS_Store -exec rm {} \;

The command lines use rm, so use with caution. A typo can cause these to recursively wipe out every file in the directory. You have been warned!

[Macola]

Originally posted by Stefan:
there's a free contexual menu plugin called GrimRipper that deletes the recource fork

Thanks--I'll give that a try.

[Mactoid]

Could one use a Folder Action on a windows directory that deleted the invisible files whenever a file is added? I would test this out myself, but I'm ashamed to say I've never figured out how to attach Folder Actions in OS X!