Hi,
I understand in the Mac system when i file is saved it creates a secondary file for meta data, this file is hidden in the mac os however when using a USB stick to transfer files to a machine, the controller now reads 2 files. The file we want and the meta file. Its impossible to tell which you want to run and clogs up the menu.
Is there a way to prevent this?
Kind regards,
Bonne
That would be a MacOS specific thing, not something I have influence over in the software, I suspect.
I found a bit of info here: https://superuser.com/questions/1000280/disable-ds-store-spotlight-and-other-metadata-on-mac-disk-image
… but not a great deal.
bonne
if you mean the files which start with a dot , just delete them.
they are not needed
barrie.
Open a terminal session:
Disable creating ‘.ds_store’ on USB volumes
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteUSBStores -bool true
Disable creating ‘.ds_store’ on network volumes
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool true
You can re-enable by changing the -bool true to -bool false any time you want.
@LightBurn understand that is an os thing, wondered if there were work arounds
@barrie in the screens menu i cannot tell the files apart. 
@Bonjour this looks like a viable solution thank you 
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