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John - 02 Jul 2009 15:45 GMT

Hello,

I want to use my mac to copy some files to mp3 players or other portable
stup.
The problem for instance in a Fat16 partion the mac write some
"._blahblah" files.
And some player doesn't like these file and get frozen. I have to plug
the player (or it's memory card) to a Pc, the remove these file in order
to make it working.

Is there a way to avoid this ?

Thanks

John

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Tom Stiller - 02 Jul 2009 17:05 GMT

> Hello,
>
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> Is there a way to avoid this ?

I don't know how to avoid it but if you're willing to use the Terminal
you can:

find <path to directory> -iname "\.[^\.]+" -exec rm -r {} \;

which says:
search the specified path for and remove any file or directory whose
name begins with a '.' followed by at least one character which is not a
'.'

Directories '.' and '..' represent the current directory and parent
directory, respectively.

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John - 04 Jul 2009 13:28 GMT

Thanks Tom

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Bob Harris - 03 Jul 2009 03:46 GMT

> Hello,
>
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> John

Maybe BlueHarvest can help
<http://www.zeroonetwenty.com/blueharvest/>

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John - 04 Jul 2009 13:28 GMT

Thanks Bob

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Jon B - 08 Jul 2009 15:56 GMT

> > Hello,
> >
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> Maybe BlueHarvest can help
> <http://www.zeroonetwenty.com/blueharvest/>

Seconded on that, use the same bit of software to make the USB stick
work on my car headunit.

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