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Those are resource fork files and they get copied when a file is copied or opened ... i don't know of a way to stop that from happening, but there is a utility that will clean them up....<br />
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give this a shot... <a href="http://zeroonetwenty.com/blueharvest/" rel="ugc">http://zeroonetwenty.com/blueharvest/</a>
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Those are resource fork files and they get copied when a file is copied or opened ... i don't know of a way to stop that from happening, but there is a utility that will clean them up....

give this a shot... http://zeroonetwenty.com/blueharvest/ [http://zeroonetwenty.com/blueharvest/]

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Will do - Now if I were to get &nbsp;Mac based HD (like a MyBook) do you know if that would stop happening? and do they work with PCs?<br />
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THANK YOU SOOO MUCH for your response!!!
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Will do - Now if I were to get  Mac based HD (like a MyBook) do you know if that would stop happening? and do they work with PCs?

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH for your response!!!

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I went shopping for a Ethernet HD that would &quot;play well&quot; with Mac since in the past the mac would create ghost files of every file it would open or even &quot;view&quot;. I was recommended aBSuffalo drive &nbsp;and I am accessing through its proprietary software (they call the NAS navigator). So a PC version is installed on each PC accessing the drive and a Mac version installed directly form their CD is accessing the drive form a mac. I am STILL getting ghost files and am about to return the HD but wanted to know if the error is in my part and it can be corrected before I move all my business files all over again ot a new external Ethernet HD (thinking of getting the MyBook if its is compatible with windows).
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I went shopping for a Ethernet HD that would "play well" with Mac since in the past the mac would create ghost files of every file it would open or even "view". I was recommended aBSuffalo drive  and I am accessing through its proprietary software (they call the NAS navigator). So a PC version is installed on each PC accessing the drive and a Mac version installed directly form their CD is accessing the drive form a mac. I am STILL getting ghost files and am about to return the HD but wanted to know if the error is in my part and it can be corrected before I move all my business files all over again ot a new external Ethernet HD (thinking of getting the MyBook if its is compatible with windows).

is it possible to correct a Mac from making ghost files on shared HD?

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