Removing ._ Files From Mounted Drives

Here’s a quick snippet of goodness to remove those annoying ‘._’ files that Macs generate on mounted drives…

cd [wherever you want to clean]
find . -name "._*" -exec rm '{}' \; -print
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2 Responses to Removing ._ Files From Mounted Drives

  1. Pingback: Mac Os: Eliminar los archivos ._ en las unidades montadas « El blog de Martini

  2. Thank you very much, you’ve been most helpful!

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