If these files are on linux try $ ls ._*
That should show you those files. If there are none you want to keep then $ rm ._* will remove them. — p...@ehealth.id.au “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.” > On 14 Mar 2021, at 8:38 am, Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnuc...@jdlh.com> wrote: > > > On 2021-03-13 13:52, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: >> …It's probably more correct to think of your non-Mac system as creating >> these files. Did you publish your Linux file system to the Mac using >> NetATalk or Samba, and then use the Mac Finder to copy the files from the >> Mac file system to that published file system? If so, then NetATalk or Samba >> told the Mac it supported storing metadata, when the underlying Linux file >> system did not have a way of storing metadata. Thus perhaps NetATalk or >> Samba created these "._*" files as a workaround for storing the file >> metadata.… > > > On 2021-03-13 13:59, Stephen C. Camidge wrote: >> No Jim. I copied my files on my Mac to an external FAT32 (I think it is >> called) drive and opened it in Linux. > > > In that case, Mac system software is probably what handled reading and > writing with the FAT32 disk. So, it is probably correct to say that the Mac > software created these "._*" files. But the situation is the same: the FAT32 > file system doesn't support storing metadata, so the thing bridging the > differences between the Mac world and the FAT32 world probably created these > files, to store metadata that was attached to the files on the Mac. > > —Jim DeLaHun > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
