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<blockquote data-quote="joker454" data-source="post: 982421" data-attributes="member: 140407"><p>Thanks for the info, I'll look into BlueHarvest. I do have 'show hidden files' on so that I can see everything. Normally I just do a search as you suggest and delete the offending '.' files, but this particular one won't allow itself to be deleted. The raid unit runs Linux so I might be able to log into it and delete the file that way, but I'll try through Osx first. I used NextStep what seems like decades ago, so if the Osx command line is similar then I can probably figure it out. Is there no way in Osx itself to have it not make these files, or is BlueHarvest the only way to go? I'll buy it if I have to, but if there's a free way I'll go with that first. I really have to fix this problem since it's truly causing havoc. For example, even if none of my files change at all, when I compare backups the software will mistakenly tell me there are differences because of the '.' files, some of which get created even when I just play a video from the Mac (more on that below). So it's causing some mass confusion on my end here because I'll mistakenly think there are differences between some local backups, archives, off site backups, etc, where in reality there aren't. It's also causing my backup setup to tell me there are changes that need archiving when in reality there aren't. Not a good situation!</p><p></p><p>I have Flip4Mac as well, but it has the same problem. My videos have no drm, and I can't convert them to other formats, for my particular business they really need to be in wmv. One thing I noticed is that when I try to play them over the network via the Mac it will create a hidden '.' file for the movie in question. So if it's called 'Foo.wmv' it will make something called '.Foo.wmv', or something like that. Is it possible that it's trying to convert it to some other format on the fly and maybe that's why it's stuttering? What I also noticed is that if I copy the movie file over locally to the Mac and play it from there, then it plays ok. That doesn't really help me though since I need to keep my gigabytes of movies on raid and work with them from there. But it's curious that locally they play ok.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joker454, post: 982421, member: 140407"] Thanks for the info, I'll look into BlueHarvest. I do have 'show hidden files' on so that I can see everything. Normally I just do a search as you suggest and delete the offending '.' files, but this particular one won't allow itself to be deleted. The raid unit runs Linux so I might be able to log into it and delete the file that way, but I'll try through Osx first. I used NextStep what seems like decades ago, so if the Osx command line is similar then I can probably figure it out. Is there no way in Osx itself to have it not make these files, or is BlueHarvest the only way to go? I'll buy it if I have to, but if there's a free way I'll go with that first. I really have to fix this problem since it's truly causing havoc. For example, even if none of my files change at all, when I compare backups the software will mistakenly tell me there are differences because of the '.' files, some of which get created even when I just play a video from the Mac (more on that below). So it's causing some mass confusion on my end here because I'll mistakenly think there are differences between some local backups, archives, off site backups, etc, where in reality there aren't. It's also causing my backup setup to tell me there are changes that need archiving when in reality there aren't. Not a good situation! I have Flip4Mac as well, but it has the same problem. My videos have no drm, and I can't convert them to other formats, for my particular business they really need to be in wmv. One thing I noticed is that when I try to play them over the network via the Mac it will create a hidden '.' file for the movie in question. So if it's called 'Foo.wmv' it will make something called '.Foo.wmv', or something like that. Is it possible that it's trying to convert it to some other format on the fly and maybe that's why it's stuttering? What I also noticed is that if I copy the movie file over locally to the Mac and play it from there, then it plays ok. That doesn't really help me though since I need to keep my gigabytes of movies on raid and work with them from there. But it's curious that locally they play ok. [/QUOTE]
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