I'm interested in more info about this behavior. I'm only aware of macOS Finder creating .DS_Store files and temp directories so Spotlight can index and show media playback via Quick Look. Is something creating hidden temp files in the same directory as the audio files themselves or are these in a subdirectory?
On May 4, 2021, at 3:47 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:
I'm loading a directory of audio files but there are a ton of ._files.wav that were created by OSX. I've got a bunch of audio sample directories like this and I could go through and remove all these files, but this software will also be used by someone on a Mac, so it's better to just ignore this inconvenient OS behavior if possible.
Dan Wilcox @danomatika http://twitter.com/danomatika danomatika.com http://danomatika.com/ robotcowboy.com http://robotcowboy.com/
Same directory. These samples were created by someone else, so I don't know what program created them.
On Tue, May 4, 2021, 10:39 AM Dan Wilcox danomatika@gmail.com wrote:
I'm interested in more info about this behavior. I'm only aware of macOS Finder creating .DS_Store files and temp directories so Spotlight can index and show media playback via Quick Look. Is something creating hidden temp files in the same directory as the audio files themselves or are these in a subdirectory?
On May 4, 2021, at 3:47 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:
I'm loading a directory of audio files but there are a ton of ._files.wav that were created by OSX. I've got a bunch of audio sample directories like this and I could go through and remove all these files, but this software will also be used by someone on a Mac, so it's better to just ignore this inconvenient OS behavior if possible.
Dan Wilcox @danomatika http://twitter.com/danomatika danomatika.com robotcowboy.com
Might I suggest:
find path/to/sample/dir -name "._*.wav" -delete
:)
Test first without the "-delete" flag.
On May 4, 2021, at 6:09 PM, Samuel Burt composer.samuel.burt@gmail.com wrote:
Same directory. These samples were created by someone else, so I don't know what program created them.
On Tue, May 4, 2021, 10:39 AM Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com mailto:danomatika@gmail.com> wrote: I'm interested in more info about this behavior. I'm only aware of macOS Finder creating .DS_Store files and temp directories so Spotlight can index and show media playback via Quick Look. Is something creating hidden temp files in the same directory as the audio files themselves or are these in a subdirectory?
On May 4, 2021, at 3:47 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at mailto:pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:
I'm loading a directory of audio files but there are a ton of ._files.wav that were created by OSX. I've got a bunch of audio sample directories like this and I could go through and remove all these files, but this software will also be used by someone on a Mac, so it's better to just ignore this inconvenient OS behavior if possible.
Dan Wilcox @danomatika http://twitter.com/danomatika danomatika.com http://danomatika.com/ robotcowboy.com http://robotcowboy.com/
On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 10:41 AM Dan Wilcox danomatika@gmail.com wrote:
I'm interested in more info about this behavior. I'm only aware of macOS Finder creating .DS_Store files and temp directories so Spotlight can index and show media playback via Quick Look. Is something creating hidden temp files in the same directory as the audio files themselves or are these in a subdirectory?
I run into this all the time with people (our students) using standalone audio file players using micro SD cards, such as the Tsunami wav trigger. The board silently fails to play any files. The students made the files with Audacity on their Mac laptops. When the card is read on a WIndows or linux machine it shows a duplicate list of files all prefixed with the dot. Once these are erased from the card the player will function normally. There's usually some .DS_Store stuff as well. Of course on a Mac these files are all invisible, so you can't erase them on the Mac itself (and they'll probably get recreated anyway).
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