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Memory stick creating extra files while transfering data from iMac to PC

Just got new iMac and while I move files to USB memory stick everything looks okay. When I remove the stick and insert it to PC it shows double files keeping the originals and adding ._ in the beginning of each file. For example if the original file name is "Cover.png", the double file is "._Cover.png". Never happened before. I tried multiple memory sticks. Always the same. This means if I transfer for example 100 files in a folder from iMac, the result is having 200 files in the same folder on the PC. Means I have to erase all the extra stuff manually. Any ideas how to fix this problem?

Posted on Jan 11, 2023 6:22 AM

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Posted on Jan 11, 2023 8:45 AM

Run the following before ejecting the USB Stick from the Mac. It will remove the dot_underbar files on it. I am using USBStickName here as an alias to your mounted stick name:


/usr/sbin/dot_clean -m /Volumes/USBStickName


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Memory stick creating extra files while transfering data from iMac to PC

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