Yup, having checked, mine are prefixed with a period here. I seem to recall an explanation of this way back, though couldn't easily find it in the archives. The general jist was that these smaller files are something that mac os uses to keep track of something or other (soooo technical haha), and while mac os itself knows we won't want to see them by default, other os's don't realise.
If we're lucky, one of the unix/linux guru's will chime in and explain more. There is also I believe a terminal command to change this behaviour if it drives you nuts, although I'd wait for a more in depth explanation before executing it. On 7/20/09, Robert Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I bet they are files starting with the period character and I didn't realize > that the period was there because I did not have punctuation set to speak > the period character. > > Thanks, > > Robert Carter > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bob Hill <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, Jul 20, 2009 10:13:24 > Subject: Re: NFB Newsline files and the mac > >> >> >> >> I have another possibility to look at. >> >> When I copy files from my iMac to a compact flash card which I use in >> a Braille Lite Millennium 20, and then use the m20 to access the card, >> there are files which have a "period" (spelled out for clarity) before >> the file name. >> >> This might be what you're finding. >> >> Bob Hill >> >> On Jul 20, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: >> >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > It may sound silly, but ruling out all possibilities, is there a >> > chance you are pasting twice. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Alex, >> > >> > >> > On 20-Jul-09, at 5:57 AM, Robert Carter wrote: >> > >> >ar >> >ar Hi, >> >ar >> >ar I am curious if anybody can explain this. I have been going to the >> >ar Nfb Newsline Online site and having my Newspaper emailed to me. The >> >ar Newspaper consists of 4 DAISY files. If I copy and paste these files >> >ar onto an SAID card using my iMac, I end up with 8 files in the folder >> >ar which seem to be two duplicates of each of the original 4 files. >> >ar Does anybody understand why this happens? I am just curious about it. >> >ar >> >ar Thanks, >> >ar >> >ar Robert Carter >> >ar >> >>> >> > >> > >> > > >> >> >> > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
