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stickman67
Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Processor: Intel
This follows on from a thread started by alieby in March 2008 (http://www.officeformac.com/ms/ProductForums/Office/3455/0), which is now closed.
I, too, work in a predominantly Windows network situation, and keep files synchronised between my desktop computer (iMac) and laptop (Vista - until this year's tax refund, I hope!). And I too suffer from a plague of these files with the prefix "._".
In the thread mentioned above, Bob Greenblatt explains that these are not temp files as I suspect a good many of us thought, but some sort of directory information.
Does anyone have any more detailed information on this phenomenon? And is there any way to avoid this? It's not so much hard drive space that's bothering me so much as the extra time taken to scroll through my "two-for-one" list of files.
And I've been deleting the ._ files like crazy - should I not be doing that?
Any and all assistance in this matter would be gratefully received.
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Processor: Intel
This follows on from a thread started by alieby in March 2008 (http://www.officeformac.com/ms/ProductForums/Office/3455/0), which is now closed.
I, too, work in a predominantly Windows network situation, and keep files synchronised between my desktop computer (iMac) and laptop (Vista - until this year's tax refund, I hope!). And I too suffer from a plague of these files with the prefix "._".
In the thread mentioned above, Bob Greenblatt explains that these are not temp files as I suspect a good many of us thought, but some sort of directory information.
Does anyone have any more detailed information on this phenomenon? And is there any way to avoid this? It's not so much hard drive space that's bothering me so much as the extra time taken to scroll through my "two-for-one" list of files.
And I've been deleting the ._ files like crazy - should I not be doing that?
Any and all assistance in this matter would be gratefully received.