The dot files problem:
Since I own a mac I’m bothered with the fact that the Finder places a .DS_Store file in every folder you visit. Although I won’t mind it on the local harddrive, it’s a pain on a network.
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22 Mar: Dear Steve II: The files problem
posted by: martijn, at 22 March 2009 22:52 GMT+1, 22 March 2009 22:54 GMT+1
Fortunately it can be switched of on network drives, but that doesn’t count for AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) network drives. In every folder it visits it creates an .AppleDouble folder with duplicate files of in the parent directory (my guess it contains metadata). They could have great reasons for that but the trail of garbage is terrible. It creates more files and folders like “Network Trash Folder” and “Temporary Items” but not in every folder, fortunately.Write a comment for this article
Also when quicklook is used (or any other porgram to see previews) on a network drive it creates a file with “._” prepended to the original file.
In comparison with Windows, MacOS makes a mess on the network if you don’t know this is happening, Windows leaves a lot of Thumbs.db files which is very annoying but the dot trail of macs is far worse.
The executable folders problem:
The apps Pages, Numbers and Keynote (iWork) are great but why is the native fileformat a folder? It makes no sense for portability to other operating systems. The export methods are not really great (Word files are not 100% perfect, PDF is not really editable, RTF is not that rich and plain text is simply plain) so exchange between Apple iWork and other software is impossible.
The shares disconnection problem:
I work a lot with Java apps (yes Steve Java is still very very alive) like Adobe Flex Builder and Eclipse PDT (and other eclipse versions). Every webapplication I created is build on Linux so working via network shares is essential. But when a network drive is not there (It got disconnected or is not yet created) the folder (eg /Volumes/www) the share is mapped to is created automatically, and when the share gets mounted after that the Finder creates: /Volumes/www-1 which ofcource breaks my workflow. I then have to disconnect the share, open the folder /Volumes and delete the created folder by hand.
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