Crap files when sending to Windows

Matsaki

Matsaki

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If I compress (ZIP) a folder with some files and send them to somebody using Windows, they always get doublets of each file.

The second file is just a crap file with an extra _1.xxx extension if I remember right. But in any case this confuse many receivers and I wonder why this happens and if I can do anything to make it right?

Thanks!
 
Ha! They are getting the dreaded .DS_Store files that OS X uses (to find file locations inside Finder). So do two thing:

1. Download the free program TinkerTool and put a checkmark in "Don't create hidden .DS_Store files over a network" then click the program's "Relaunch Finder" to make that stick.

2. In Mail go to Mail's menu item Edit and in the drop-down select 'Attachments'. In there select "Always send Windows-Friendly Attachments".

Hopefully doing these two things will stop what you described, Good Luck.
 
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Thanks for your reply but,

It's not .DS files and as they already are compressed as i.e ZIP, sending as Windows friendly want make any difference.
 
A pity that one can't just use the "show invisible files" and delete them. I don't like to have an application that deletes all my .DS files
 
Matsaki said:
A pity that one can't just use the "show invisible files" and delete them. I don't like to have an application that deletes all my .DS files
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TinkertTool only prevents the .DS-Stores files from being written on Networked drives (think a Windows shared drive).
 
AppleDouble files are NOT ._DS-store files...
They are Apple's resource files, split off from the original Apple file as part of the process used with file sharing to non-HFS file systems, such as Windows.
My previous post does have a link to several good tips for removing the (dot-underscore) files.
 
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