transfer of textfile from mac to Pc; textedit files

when I transfer textfiles , in my application, files show up like this with a ._ infront of them and the PC does not recognise them. any tips?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.14

Posted on May 27, 2021 10:34 PM

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Posted on May 28, 2021 1:13 PM

This usually occurs on a FAT-32 formatted drive (e.g. USB stick). After you are done copying the files to the external drive, you need to run a special macOS utility that deletes those dot underscore (._) files, but not the real corresponding filenames on the drive:


dot_clean -m /Volumes/MountedDriveName


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