April 24, 201610 yr I have added a Mac to my system along side my windows box, I have not written anything to the servers using the Mac only viewed files and I notice its leaving DS_store files on the servers, is there anything already in UnRaid to deal with it or do I have to install something?Perhaps someone could point me in the right direction. I am using 6.1.9 on both servers though the older one still runs reiser. Thanks Peter
April 25, 201610 yr There's nothing inherently bad about those .DS_Store and ._* files so they can be left on your NAS. If you want to you can run a simple script every so often to remove them but as soon as you open a Finder window on a folder a .DS_Store file will be created as it's where the Finder stores information about your current view of the folder (icon layout, scroll position, etc.). If you consider them clutter and really don't want them it's better to configure OS X not to create them on network storage, but then Finder will no longer remember your previous view of the folder. If you read the thread to which you were referred and follow the superuser.com link in reply #6 you'll see how to do that. Alternatively, you can keep them in place but if they clutter up Windows file explorer you can configure unRAID to hide "dot" files in Settings -> SMB Settings.
April 25, 201610 yr There's nothing inherently bad about those .DS_Store and ._* files so they can be left on your NAS. If you want to you can run a simple script every so often to remove them but as soon as you open a Finder window on a folder a .DS_Store file will be created as it's where the Finder stores information about your current view of the folder (icon layout, scroll position, etc.). If you consider them clutter and really don't want them it's better to configure OS X not to create them on network storage, but then Finder will no longer remember your previous view of the folder. If you read the thread to which you were referred and follow the superuser.com link in reply #6 you'll see how to do that. Alternatively, you can keep them in place but if they clutter up Windows file explorer you can configure unRAID to hide "dot" files in Settings -> SMB Settings. There is a way to disable to generation of .DS_Store and ._* files on remote shares.... that seems helpful for the people who don't like seeing these entirely harmless files.
April 25, 201610 yr Just wondering, there was an issue deleting a Share with those hidden DS_Store and other hidden files in previous versions of UnRaid is that still true with v6?
April 25, 201610 yr I don't know about previous versions of unRAID but I've had no problems deleting a share containing .DS_Store files from unRAID 6. As far as Linux is concerned they are simply files whose names begin with a period character, which it treats as hidden.
April 27, 201610 yr Author Thanks for your replies, I see the is an AFP tab for apple under settings networks, is there any issues created using that, which i assume is required to write to the servers from the Mac? Peter
April 27, 201610 yr Thanks for your replies, I see the is an AFP tab for apple under settings networks, is there any issues created using that, which i assume is required to write to the servers from the Mac? Peter It's only used by Mac computers and only then if they use the AFP protocol. If you use only SMB or only Windows you don't need to enable AFP.
June 24, 201610 yr There is a way to stop these files being written server (UNraid) side Please see my post here https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=49963.0
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