On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 01:02 PM, jake williamson wrote:
Hidden files are always present on a PC. If you ever open a PC folder and "Select all" and either try to delete the contents or copy the contents you will get an dialog box about invisible files being present. Kinda useless and irritating in my book.
from looking in one of the folders i have copied across, theres a matching
amount of hidden files now showing on the pc (so if i copied a directory of
100 files to the pc there are an additional 100 hidden files).
they are named as follows:This is just an educated guess, but I think the files that start with ._ are "work" files that Excel generates. There is a preference in Excel (and word) to create a "work" file. The work file is a temp file that is supposed to be in place while you're working on the file. I believe it's supposed to go away when you're done with the visible file. The idea is that if your machine crashes while working you can recover the info easier.
file name that was copied: jakes_excel_sheet.xls additional hidden file: ._jakes_excel_sheet.xls
These files show up a lot when dealing with OS X. I wouldn't worry about them. I used to have a Nomad MuVo (128 MB USB drive/MP3 player) that could only be formated on a PC, but I used to load my songs from my Mac. When I put the MuVo back on the PC, I could see the .DS-Store and ._Trashes files. Same thing happened in OS 9. Under the same circumstances in OS 9, it will put a DESKTOP folder on the drive.they range in size from 1kb and seem to be proportional to the original file.
in addition, there seem to be a whole load of:
.DS_Store
and
._.Trashes
files.
this is worrying - obviously this takes up a whole load of disk space and
i'm guessing the pc doesn't need them?
any clues out there?
I'm generally clueless, but this may help... ;-)
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