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Sudden plague of .AppleDouble files !
I have now a plague of .AppleDouble files all over my NAS shares !
Apparently these are caused by NAS software writing these after the NAS share has been accessed by OSX.
True ?
It seems these are normally hidden but I'm also processing these shares with Win7 so my file count has now doubled !
I upgraded to 4.2.23 recently. Would this have changed the situation ? Were they hidden before ? Can I hide them now ?
I'm using ML on 10.8.4. Might this also have caused these ?
Anything else I can do to send them back to the realm of "hidden system files" again ?
There are also some .db files that have appeared that can't be deleted - these must be an OSX database file that OSX uses. These weren't there before either.
Cheers.
Apparently these are caused by NAS software writing these after the NAS share has been accessed by OSX.
True ?
It seems these are normally hidden but I'm also processing these shares with Win7 so my file count has now doubled !
I upgraded to 4.2.23 recently. Would this have changed the situation ? Were they hidden before ? Can I hide them now ?
I'm using ML on 10.8.4. Might this also have caused these ?
Anything else I can do to send them back to the realm of "hidden system files" again ?
There are also some .db files that have appeared that can't be deleted - these must be an OSX database file that OSX uses. These weren't there before either.
Cheers.
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- If you are accessing via standard network access in Windows, you can edit the smb.conf file to NOT show files that meet defined patterns. You need to log in via ssh, edit the conf file and the changes should be immediate.
If you are not a little familiar with linux, I might suggest you don't do this. :-) - I thought I was dreaming when this issue happened to my systems (mix of Mountain Lion and Windows XP). I am relieved to see others have noticed as well. I have no idea when it occurred or what contributed to it. Annoying though.
One part solution is to use software on the Mac such as BlueHarvest. It will delete (clean) Mac and non-Mac drives of Apple litter, except it will not delete some files/folders created on the NAS drives such as .AppleDB and .AppleDouble.
http://www.zeroonetwenty.com/blueharves ... tions.html
It is a scourge, for which in my network systems I see no practical purpose. If a user wishes, these dot files and folders should be a function option to permanently and universally turn off, whether a NAS or Mac OS setting.
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