Attack of the ._ files! Help me figure this out..

[jimmy43]

Hey guys, running Snow Leopard as my OS, and we have a Tiger OSX server here in our office.

Every time we copy files over to the server, we get ._ files for every single file we copied over! It's a bit ridiculous but it hasn't been tooo much of a problem. Now we're starting experience some web server issues and I want to fix this issue once and for all.

I found this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA20578

Which seems to hint that it is because of the HFS vs HFS+.

I checked the server and it seems to still be running HFS, while all our boxes have HFS+.

Is there any solutions with this, or are we going to have to format our server to HFS+, and will that fix the issue?

thanks
T

 

[iThinkergoiMac]

Tiger will not run unless the HDD it is running from is formatted HFS+. So your Tiger machine is definitely formatted HFS+.

 

[Darth.Titan]

You can use the dot_clean command in Terminal to join the dot-underscore files with their parent files before you copy them.

Get more info by typing man dot_clean in the Terminal.