Appledouble files on NAS drive in mixed windows/apple
Hello everybody,
A problem I learned about is the creation by an Apple computer of so called "Appledouble files". It seems Apple computers create a double of each file to store some extra info about the file on non-Apple hard drives. Not really a problem as it are small files but if you use the same NAS on a Windows computer you see all those files double?
As I use the NAS drive to store my pictures, music, movies, ... and I will access them on my Windows computers and also on my Apple I am afraid all these double files will create problems in specific programs I use to access my pictures, music, movies.
As an example I use XBMC on my media Windows computer to play movies on my TV. Having all files double will create problems when the program searches for new movie files and will show all movies twice.
I found on another forum this:
You can prevent Mac OS X from creating these files on a network share by using a program such as TinkerTool or by opening Terminal.app and running the following command:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
Would this command actually prevents the creation of appledouble files?
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Regards,
Dino