Hello Paul, I never got around to finishing my draft post explaining about "Apple Double Format" files, which is one of the classes of Mac-specific files you refer to, when this was discussed on list a while ago. The others are directory files (.DS_store, and files for Time Machine indexing and trash).
There is a commercial service that sells an app named BlueHarvest for cleaning up these kinds of files. A single user license is $14.95 for 3 machines. The product web site (including the ability to get a 30-day free trial download of the program) is: http://zeroonetwenty.com/blueharvest/ You need to be running Lion or later. There's also a command-line tool named "dot_clean" (without the quotation marks) that you can run from Terminal to get rid of file with names that start with "._" (without the quotation marks). The GUI interface and options of BlueHarvest are probably easier to use and more comprehensive. Here's the dot_clean man page linked from the Apple Developer's site, although you can also use the "man" command I Terminal on your Mac to display the information: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/dot_clean.1.html HTH. Cheers, Esther On Dec 11, 2013, at 12:30 PM, Paul Hopewell wrote: > Hello, > I recall recently reading on this forum information about a Mac OS App which > deleted all those Mac OS specific files which Mac OS creates when you use it > to write data to a USB memory stick. If you then plug this memory stick into > a Windows computer you see several folders / files whose names begin with a > period. This is very confusing to Windows users so I would like an easy way > to get rid of these files. > > Can someone please remind me what App does this clean up and where I can get > it. > > Many thanks. > > Paul Hopewell <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
