I work on a lot of JPEG, PNG & PDF files using both my personal Mac and work Windows computer, each time I open a file from the jump drive I use for these on my Mac it creats a ._ file that is only visible when I open the drive on my work computer. What are these files created for? And more importantly, How do I stop these additional files from being created?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
DS_Store is the name of a file in the Apple OS X operating system for storing custom attributes of a folder such as the position of icons or the choice of a background image. The name is an abbreviation of Desktop Services Store, reflecting its purpose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.DS_Store
to remove them from a windows share try this:
The Mac OS does that to preserve the resource fork data on a drive that is not formatted for the Mac. See this topic for more on the subject.
Be careful what you remove from a DOS/Windows formatted drive. If for instance you copy legacy Mac TrueType fonts, or Mac Type 1 PostScript fonts to such a drive, then delete the ._ files, you will destroy the fonts. Such fonts have all of their main data in the resource fork rather than the data fork.
Is there any way to prevent my Mac from creating dot underscore files?
