I have a Macbook Air. I take photos, put them on the Mac while on holiday, then transfer them via a flash-drive to my pc later.
On the pc I always see there are small duplicate files with the same name as the images but starting with a dot ( . ) They won't open. Can I safely delete these off the pc without damaging the proper file. Sometimes they are RAW files, so there is a side-car xmp file. These are also duplicated, with a dot prefix. all these .---- files are only 4-6kb each. Thanks for your help.
On the pc I always see there are small duplicate files with the same name as the images but starting with a dot ( . ) They won't open. Can I safely delete these off the pc without damaging the proper file. Sometimes they are RAW files, so there is a side-car xmp file. These are also duplicated, with a dot prefix. all these .---- files are only 4-6kb each. Thanks for your help.