Richard, It seems turning off the '._*' file creation could cause problems with the Apple Finder and some MS Office apps.
After a quick search I found an old entry on Mac OS X Hints (MacWorld forum) that states "using the 'mv' and 'cp' commands (in Terminal) will move or copy files without the ._ files.", so maybe you could use a shell command to do the copying. I just tried a quick test and although I'm not seeing any '._*' files, I noticed that using the 'cp' command doesn't copy the '.DS_Store' file so it may be worth a try to see if avoids copying the '._*' files too. Article link:- http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20020217094739452 Paul On 2014-08-26, at 2:40 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > When copying files from a Mac to a volume formatted with NTFS or other > Windows-compatible format, for each Mac file it also creates a second file > with the same name but with "._" prepended to it. > > E.g., this: > > MyFile1.txt > MyFile2.txt > > ...becomes: > > ._MyFile1.txt > ._MyFile2.txt > MyFile1.txt > MyFile2.txt > > This is course annoying, and worse, for many people I run into it's also > confusing as well. > > Strangely, the otherwise-usability-conscious Apple has provided no > Preferences setting in the Finder for this sad behavior. > > Anyone here know if there's some command-line option we can set to tell the > Mac to stop doing that? > > I used to write scripts to remove them after the fact, but it would be much > simpler/saner to just turn that off altogether. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
