Dear Auntie TUAW,
Since Installing Lion, when I copy files to a PC compatible hard drive it creates duplicate unreadable files with and underscore in front of it.
filename.mov
_filename.mov
It makes sorting through files a nightmare as I never had this problem with Snow Leopard. What has changed and can I hide these automatically?
Cheers,
Sanj
Dear Sanj,
What you're seeing there is metadata lint, copied over from your Mac's HFS+ drive. The Hierarchical File System (Plus!) was developed by Apple for it Mac computers. The extra file name (which has a period in front, by the way, so it's ._filename.mov, not filename.mov) contains all th