Not sure about Android, no experience there.Īs always, thanks very much for helping out.Īlthough I like the simplicity of stock file managers (on both Windows and Mac), I can live with using a 3rd party file manager just when accessing removable and network volumes. My Synology NAS handles them all too so I don't seem on the Windows side when I mount the same share. I use Paragon on Windows for APFS and HFS drives and they look the same on my Windows machine as my Mac.
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I don't know your use case, but if you have an HFS file system driver on Windows or Linux they usually reintegrate all of this so you can't see the details. All files in macOS have that fork and that's how it tries to serialize them to disks with a different file system. You can disable MDS on a specific volume, but you need to create a hidden file to do it sudo touch /Volumes/ is the resource fork on your file. DS_Store files if you like and Finder won't save view preferences on those drives.įor USB drives, execute the following in Terminal defaults write DSDontWriteUSBStores -bool trueįor Network drives, defaults write DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool true Is there a new efficient solution for this in 2020? Besides, there are other concerns too like giving network admin access to these 3rd party apps in order to be able to do the task, another thing that I am not comfortable doing. But as I mentioned before, these work 'after the fact' and I really want to avoid a continuous ongoing process like this. but those don't support network volumes). I have found only one app BlueHarvest that can delete those files from network volumes (there are others too like USBClean, CleanUSBDrive, DotCleaner, etc.Besides, I guess these files also put a stress on my NAS as applications like Plex begins to index all these files, and I am not aware of a way to stop those from being indexed. I have a NAS that I access using multiple devices running on multiple other platforms (Windows/ Android) and so I don't want this clutter.When are these files created? Are they created only when a file operation (like copy/ move/ paste) is performed, or are they created the moment a volume/ folder is accessed using Finder?.
What is creating these files? If it is Finder (and not macOS), will I stop seeing them by using another File Manager (instead of Finder)?.What this means is this is a never ending process, where macOS keeps creating them, and then one has to use one of the above solutions on a continuous basis and keep deleting them. But these are all temporary solutions 'after the fact', which means they all tend to delete these temp files after they are created. There are several workarounds posted in forums, involving automator scripts, terminal commands, 3rd party apps, etc. Basically, a mess that is unnecessary with no built in tool/ setting to stop creating them. These files not only drastically increase the number of files in those volumes, but also slow them down when accessed using other Operating Systems/ programs as they begin to index all those files in their own ways. _DS_Store, etc.) on removable and network volumes.
The issue is with macOS (or is it Finder?) creating several hidden files (._*. As is typical of Apple, they don't give a **** despite several people complaining. I know this has been asked several times in the past, and there hasn't been a proper solution for this till now.
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