Fonts uploaded to windows server

[graphicjlh]

Hello

I work on a Mac from home and access my company's Windows server to download and upload InDesign packaged files.

What I have noticed and am new to this is there is another folder created at the same time that has ._MACOSX as its title. in it, there are duplicated files of the upload with ._"filename", are these resource forks?

Anyway, do I leave them as I go? or delete them after upload is complete? Not sure how to handle that.

Thank you

 

[Giaguara]

Yep, they are resource forks.
Here's a bit more about them and their history http://lowendmac.com/crews/06/0104.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork

You can prevent them from being formed on non-Mac volumes http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1629

To configure a Mac OS X user account so that .DS_Store files are not created when interacting with a remote file server using the Finder, follow the steps below:

Note: This will affect the user's interactions with SMB/CIFS, AFP, NFS, and WebDAV servers.

1. Open Terminal.
2. Execute this command:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
3. Either restart the computer or log out and back in to the user account.

If you want to prevent .DS_Store file creation for other users on the same computer, log in to each user account and perform the steps above—or distribute a copy of the newly modified com.apple.desktopservices.plist file to the ~/Library/Preferences folder of other user accounts.

Disabling that will make it more comfortable in this case, the only downside usually being that using "more info" about the files on that server may not show much info on your Mac.