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Folks,
There is this annoy thing happening du to Netatalk. Each time a directory is created
on a network drive a subdir called .Appledouble is created with a .Parent file. It makes
cleanup of a drive impossible from Windows explorer since these directories
and files are transparent to Windows. To delete them you have to go the
Unix prompt and delete the file /.Appledouble/.Parent first. I would like to disable
this but really do not want to affect network drive access for Mac people.
Does anyone have a solid fix for this?
bwsaul
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by: andyringPosted on 2001-03-10 at 17:21:14ID: 5917391
I don't have an answer for this, but I am familiar with the issue here. I don't know how Windows figures into this, as netatalk is a program for Linux/Unix machines to work as Mac file servers easily over Appletalk. My guess is the files you're seeing are there because of the way netatalk copes with the differences in the Mac filesystem versus the Linux/Unix filesystem. It's not something you can avoid.