Get rid of those pesky ._ files in webdav on osx

Posted by Joel Jensen Fri, 23 May 2008 13:55:10 GMT

I’m doing alot of development for Honda using plone. A good way of editing files on plone is to connect to the server by tunneling webdav through ssh and mounting the webdav server via the finder. Trouble is, OSX creates a ._filename file for every file you touch or edit, It doesn’t break plone, but looks ugly.

The solution for this is:

Open up a terminal session
type:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
hit return
reboot

If you dont like this solution, Cyberduck works well. It works with:

  • FTP
  • FTPS (FTP/SSL)
  • SFTP
  • WebDAV
  • WebDAV ( http/ssl)
  • Amazon S3 Simple Storage Service

AND it’s opensource. If you like it, give the developers some money.