Stop appledouble from creating on NAS

Those files are a method of encoding HFS extended attributes on filesystems that don't support such attributes. They're created by the NAS itself, not by your computer.

Unless you get rid of the NAS, you'll have to accept the way it works.

Hi,

I found this one, probably it works.

To disable, write the following at your terminal.

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

Best

> defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

Assuming that the Mac was rebooted after typing the above command, this appears to have been tried already by the original poster.

These directories contain metadata relating to files on AFP network shares when they are on a filesystem which does not natively support resource forks (including shares which are exported with multiple protocols such as NFS, CIFS as well as OS X's own AFP) - my Synology NAS has them, for example.

The small binary files within the .AppleDouble directories have the same name as the actual files, and contain metadata about the file which cannot be stored inside the file itself, such as indexing information.

I've succesfully removed all these files from my NAS (I urge caution when doing this in a script), and disabled the creation of them by running the above command and then rebooting (or possible just relaunching Finder, it was a long time ago).

You can check if the option has been set within the desktop services settings with the following command:

defaults read com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores

This should simply return "true" if the original write command was successful.

Has there been any other activity on this .AppleDouble files and NAS. It is causing an issue with me when I archive files to my production workflow server.

Yeah, have the same "problem" with my NAS. Definitely, it's a way Mac OSX clients work with foreign file system. The problem here is not these folders "per se", but the fact, you get error when try to copy something from NAS, that contains .AppleDouble inside.

I wrote Automator routine to get rid of these files, when I need to copy something massively from NAS.

Here is link to Automator file

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l6i5v17hkv7da6p/AADjoKJ4dF-JgSWi2eYm15ega?dl=0

When run it, choose folder where to search and delete! .AppleDouble. Works recursive (check all subfolders and so on).

I tried opening the file in Automator but its a text file and it won't open. I've never used Automator but I really need to get rid of the appledoubler folders. Can You provide a little directions. I would be so thankful.

Hey WmTasker... I got it to work. Download the zip file from dropbox then unzip it and just double click on "Find_And_Remove_AppleDouble". It will open up Automater. The commad script will automatically populate and you just need to choose the network location to scan and remove the files from. Thanks to pelegrin!

@pelegrin, thank you so much for saving me from hours of pain with your Automator script. Just wanted to bump and thank. Have a great New Year.

hey thank you very much- appreciate you sharing your script. Worked perfectly.

Hi - just a polite bump, I cant get this script to work. Or maybe it does, but it finishes in less than 3s for a 500GB folder of audio files... doesn't seem right!

I have my settings as follows:

Start at folder - itunes

Type: files and folders

Allow multiple selection: checked

Then click run and all over pretty quickly.

Any suggestions on what I'm missing?

Thanks in advance!

Finally found a good solution! You will not prevent them from being made but you will never have to see them again connecting trough smb(samba):

Terminal or putty

Login MBL: ssh root@ip_address_MBL

default password= welc0me

0. cd ..

1. cd etc/samba
2. nano smb-global_veto.confchange: veto files = /.nflc_data/to: veto files = /.nflc_data/.AppleDouble/.AppleDB/.AppleDesktop/.TemporaryItems/.NetworkTrashFo lder/Temporary Items/Network Trash Folder/Thumbs.db/Desktop.ini/This will hide and disallow access to all the named files/folders more can be added as you like

3. HIT: ctrl+O (to save changes then) ctrl+X (to exit editor)

4. /etc/init.d/samba restart

Find and Remove Appledoubler is a folder on my computer when I unzip the file - contains 2 folders: _MACOSX inside of which is a _ with nothing, and the other folder is CONTENTS. nothing I click on opens automator -- any ideas? apparently files I've stored on our network drive (home) have this .appledoubler issue and my husband (a PC guy wants it gone). Any help would be appreciated. Oh, and I'm not comfortable using terminal --- thanks