Hidden Files, Starting with a '.', Mostly Resource

[varsenault]

Hi,

Some of the CIFS clients to our Alfresco repository are Mac OS X and Linux OSes. These machines will sometime create hidden files (starting with a ".", dot character) when creating or modifying content in the CIFS repository. I'm not talking about the Mac OS X ".DS_Store". I'm talking mostly about Mac OS X resource forks. These files have almost the same name as their "content" file countepart : if I upload a file called "Document.pdf" there will also be a file called ".Document.pdf" created in Alfresco. Is there a way to prevent the creation of those files in the CIFS directory (without creating an Alfresco rule for automatically deleting the files that starts with a ".")?


Thanks.

[sselvan]

Stumbled upon this one, when searching for something else - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1629

Found the above link in http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_on_MacOS_X#Removing_the_.DS_Store_.22duplicate.22_files

[scsc_tech]

Stumbled upon this one, when searching for something else - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1629

Thanks for the contribution, but this is not the type of file that is being discussed in this thread. What its really about is the ._ resource forks that get created in duplicate for every single file, not just folders.
I second that it is Alfrescos responsibility to filter these HIDDEN system files as such.
In argument to them meaning different things to different OS's, generally anything preceded with a . is a hidden file in virtually all operating systems. Alfresco should at least allow for a config file boolean to turn hiding on or off.

new improvement report created http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-2195

[cloudcontrol]

Hi Folks- please create an account in the Alfresco jira bug tracking system and vote for this to be fixed: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-254