_\* -deleteĮither of those can be wrapped up in a shell script, Applescript or Automator action to make it easy to run in the future.Ī final option is to create a cron job on your server - frankly this is the best option - it can clean these files on a daily basis meaning you can forget about running it every time you get annoyed by them. Or just delete them via 'find' find /Volumes/Mounted-SMB-share -name. You have a few options to clean them out…Ī GUI app like Blueharvest (I haven't used this on network volumes).Ī Terminal command on OS X, (attempt to merge & delete the files) dot_clean -m /Volumes/Mounted-SMB-share
The get info dialog shows some extended attributes, but not all of them.ĭeleting the files does lose this metadata. The files are created when OS X stores files on a filesystem that does not support extended attributes - things like Spotlight comments or the 'downloaded from' URLs that are added to files from the internet. OS X has a tool built in to clean these - it is a Terminal command These are 'dot underbar' files or 'Apple double' files. Is there a way, without using third party software that costs any money, to make these files visible within Finder so I can delete them from the network drive? They aren't a problem on my Macbook Pro so that's fine, I just want them off the network drive!Īny suggestions would be great, thanks 🙂 My dad can see all these files and just delete them manually, but we have a massive media library and it's a total pain to sift through and do that as it'll take forever! When deleting these files I noticed that the "dead" files always started with a "._" before the normal file name. I recently noticed that whenever I copied a file from my Macbook Pro onto that hard drive, XBMC would show two files that would appear exactly the same but one of them wouldn't play. I have hard drive attached to my router working as a NAS drive, which is my main source for a media library (XBMC) running on a Raspberry Pi. I'm no Terminal wizard so all these lines of commands with no explanation mean nothing to me, I'm hoping someone can explain a relatively simple (or copy and paste) command I can use!
I've seen a number of discussions regarding this, but haven't found anything that has a straight forward, idiot proof method.
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