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michaelshmitty / SD-Installer-macos_MiSTer

MiSTer SD card installer (macOS)
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Remove ._ files #2

Closed ambalek closed 5 years ago

ambalek commented 5 years ago

Even though I didn't open any SD card partitions in Finder I still somehow got a ._menu file:

$ find /Volumes/MiSTer_Data/ -name "._*"
/Volumes/MiSTer_Data//._MiSTer
/Volumes/MiSTer_Data//._menu.rbf
/Volumes/MiSTer_Data//#Scripts/._update.sh

You could do something like find /Volumes/MiSTer_Data/ -type f -name '._*' -delete just before ejecting.

I've also done mdutil -i off /Volumes/MiSTer_Data to stop Spotlight indexing

michaelshmitty commented 5 years ago

Good catch and thanks for the proposed solutions. I'll fix that as soon as possible. Darn OSX littering all over the place...

michaelshmitty commented 5 years ago

@ambalek It seems that the ._* files only appear if you start browsing through the MiSTerData partition with the finder after you re-insert the SD card in your mac. At least that's what happens on my machine. When I immediately insert the SD card into the DE10-Nano after creation, there is no sign of . files. Can you confirm this? If that's correct, I will close this issue as it may not seem related to the creation of the SD card.

Thanks!

michaelshmitty commented 5 years ago

Although stopping the Spotlight indexing may still be useful. I'll implement that.