[Will C]

I have cheap and nasty MP3 player which uses an SD card. Being cheap and nasty it cannot cope with the MacOS X invisble files - the ones which start _. - these crash the device! I know it is these files because if I delete them using a windows machine it works fine. I only have a mac at home.

Is there a way I can remove these files just before ejecting the card from my mac or set the mac to not bother writing the files to the SD card?

I am happy to use terminal, but only know really basic commands.

[I know I should have a got an iPod and I will probably buy one someday but this thing was cheap and I don't like throwing things out]

TIA

[Cold Warrior]

Check macupdate.com for this

DeStore 1.3 - MacUpdate

[slugslugslug]

There's a free app called FinderCleaner which will clean these files off any volume you drop on it, then eject the volume. If you're used to ejecting volumes by dragging to the Trash (as opposed to Cmd-E or using the sidebar eject icon), then it's almost transparent to put FinderCleaner in the corner of your desktop near the Trash.

There's also a preference pane called BlueHarvest which, I believe, prevents these files from being written in the 1st place (making it even more transparent once set up), and I think it can have per-volume settings. It's not free.

[Tomchu]

find /Volumes/Name -name "._*" -print0 | xargs -0 rm

Replace the "Name" with whatever your USB drive/SD card's volume name is. You can do an "ls /Volumes" to check.

It's safe to do if you don't mind losing the resource forks from your files/folders on said SD card. I think these days resource fork usage is mostly limited to custom icons, though. :-P

[Will C]

Thanks for those quick responses - FinderCleaner sounds closest to what I think I need (thoguh some of the comments on MU make me wary), but the others are probably useful too.

[ibook_steve]

Search Versiontracker for BlueHarvest. This is exactly what you need.

Steve