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Disable creation of .AppleDouble files on Mac OS X

Fresh6 days ago
Mar 15, 202642711 views
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Is there a way to disable the creation of .AppleDouble files in Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) on non-HFS filesystems (such as SMB or NFS network shares etc...) ?

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Fix for: Disable creation of .AppleDouble files on Mac OS X

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Given that Macs support multiple forks to files, the AppleDouble trick ( files) try to preserve the data in those forks. So they are needed so that Mac OS X can perform operations on them. However, most of the files are created when the same volume …

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