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Does anyone have a Mac Terminal script to remove hidden files?

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 202653647 views
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My car stereo can play music from USB flash drives, so I asked about copying MP3s from an iTunes playlist. That worked fine, but my stereo wouldn't play the MP3 files. I eventually put the flash drive into my work computer running Windows 7, and I found the issue: a bunch of hidden files in the for…

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._[filename].mp3

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Fix for: Does anyone have a Mac Terminal script to remove hidden files?

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These files are hidden in OS X because they start with and are therefore not shown in Finder by default. There is no special attribute set in these files apart from that. A very simplistic approach would be to delete all files that start with a dot …

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