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Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / September 2005Finder adding hidden files
Hi I imported a CD which had 10 songs on it into iTunes 4.9 and just had the files named as something like: 01 Track 01.mp3 02 Track 02.mp3 etc, etc. When I went into the folder where the mp3 files were, there were 10 mp3 files as expected. I then connected my flash based mp3 player to the usb port and copied the 10 mp3 files from the Mac to the mp3 player. When I was playing back the mp3 files on the mp3 player, the player's lcd screen said there were 20 songs, but when I played the songs back it would only play 10 of them. I then connected the mp3 player to my PC running Windows XP and saw that for every mp3 file there was also a hidden (ghost) file that was less than 1KB. i.e.. 01 Track 01.mp3 (about 4MB) ._01 Track 01.mp3 (less than 1KB) 02 Track 02.mp3 (about 5MB) ._02 Track 02.mp3 (less than 1KB) et, etc. So for every proper mp3 file there was also a smaller file of less than 1KB with an "._" at the front of the files name. I know that Finder also adds ".DS_Store" files to every folder that I open on the flash drive, and also a ".Trashes" folder and a "501" folder, but to create ghost files of every file I copy to the flash drive is crazy. Is there any way I can get Finder to stop adding these hidden files on my flash drive, I'm using Panther 10.3.9. Cheers Ian > Is there any way I can get Finder to stop adding these hidden files on my > flash drive, I'm using Panther 10.3.9. I had the same problems with mp3s copied from the Mac - it's the way it stores some of the data. I don't know if it was the cause of it, but in the end I was unable to use the mp3 player standalone to play mp3s, even when I took the mp3 player to the PC and zapped the DS Store files. I wish Mac would devise some other way to store information about files - they certainly didn't do it this way with the older operating systems. It doesn't help you... but at least you know it annoys someone else too! Rifty  SignatureAcademic and Computing Help http://rifty.net > I wish Mac would devise some other way to store information about files > - they certainly didn't do it this way with the older operating systems. The method of storing extended data in files beginning with a period has been around for decades in Unix systems (which is what OS X is based on). Perhaps the question should be why Microsoft (which used to produce Xenix - a Unix clone) doesn't bother providing file naming compatibility with a massively popular OS which was around years before they were. > Perhaps the question should be why Microsoft (which used to > produce Xenix - a Unix clone) doesn't bother providing file naming > compatibility with a massively popular OS which was around years before > they were. Agreed. It's a very good question! Rifty SignatureAcademic and Computing Help http://rifty.net > Is there any way I can get Finder to stop adding these hidden files on my > flash drive Get FinderCleaner from MacUpdate and use it (drag and drop) to remove the crud. I use a flashdrive between Macs and PCs all the time and it works fine with FinderCleaner - have it in my dock. Dave. > Get FinderCleaner from MacUpdate and use it (drag and drop) to remove > the crud. I use a flashdrive between Macs and PCs all the time and it > works fine with FinderCleaner - have it in my dock. What bothers me about using these sorts of programs is that I may lose something important in the DS_Store file. I seem to remember at one stage that flash drives where those files had been removed had directory problems when reinserted into the Mac - but that issue may have been resolved by now. Rifty SignatureAcademic and Computing Help http://rifty.net > > Is there any way I can get Finder to stop adding these hidden files on my > > flash drive [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Dave. Dave Downloaded FinderCleaner and now have it in my Dock, when I drag my flash drive to it, it does delete all the resource files etc, but when I click to eject the flash drive it comes up with the error "The variable thePassword is not defined" and it doesn't eject from within FinderCleaner, so I have to then eject the flash drive from the desktop (which then adds the DS_Store file to the root directory on the flash drive again). Searching the net, it seems that there are a lot of people who have the same error. Cheers Ian > drive to it, it does delete all the resource files etc, but when I click > to eject the flash drive it comes up with the error "The variable > thePassword is not defined" and it doesn't eject from within > FinderCleaner, so I have to then eject the flash drive from the desktop > (which then adds the DS_Store file to the root directory on the flash > drive again). Yes, it's a script error which I imagine Tim will clean up soon. It does delete all the crud apart from that root directory one though, and I seem to remember a note on Macupdate's reviews pages about how to eject it to avoid getting even that one. I can live with a single ds_store so I haven't bothered about it. The flashdrive I use has about 50 directories on it (it's a mirror of the PC user directories) and it used to be full of rubbish until I started using Findercleaner. I haven't had any problems with it so far. Dave. > Searching the net, it seems that there are a lot of people who have the > same error. As I said in my other posting, removing those files can cause problems. Looks like that hasn't really been resolved. Rifty SignatureAcademic and Computing Help http://rifty.net |
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