[OpenAFS] Re: more newbie questions

[Sidney Cammeresi]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 at 19.18.22 -0600, Christopher D. Clausen wrote:
> Jason Edgecombe <openafs@rampaginggeek.com> wrote:
> > Jonathan Dobbie wrote:
> >> As a last question, completely out of left field, does anyone know if
> >> AFS stores apple metadata?  I've seen some references to it doing so
> >> in Apple Double files, but nothing concrete.
> >>
> > I'm not sure, but apple tends to store resource metadata for filename
> > in ._filename when the filesystem doesn't support resource forks
> > natively.
> 
> The ._ "AppleDouble" files do indeed get created in AFS.  Along with 
> .DS_Store files.
> 
> Does anyone know how to prevent their creation?  They cause problems for 
> other apps when trying to do things like import *.mp3 in various apps.

$ defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
$ cp ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktopservice.plist /Library/Preferences
$ reboot

Second step sets it for all users on the machine and is optional.

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