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Entire Dropbox duplicated with ·_ preceding the duplicate; Needing to delete all the ·_ duplicates
I recently had my computor worked on and when I reconnected it to Dropbox all my files, in all Dropbox accounts I am involved with and linked to duplicated every file with ·_ preceding the duplicate....
SB96 wrote:
... all my files, in all Dropbox accounts I am involved with and linked to duplicated every file with ·_ preceding the duplicate.
They're neither duplicate nor corrupt files. They're AppleDouble files, and they're created by a Mac when files are stored on a non-HFS drive partition. The Mac operating system uses them to store the resource fork of files stored on filesystems that don't natively support it.
Are you on a Mac? If so, you may not want to delete them just yet, at least not until you're certain how they were created and whether or not your OS needs them. The ._ files are usually hidden on a Mac as they're considered system files. On Windows they're visible and don't serve a purpose.
If you're on Windows, just search within your local Dropbox folder for ._ and delete them all.
When I first uploaded files, Dropbox told me ._.DS._Store was an invisible file that I don't need and it wouldn't be uploaded. But not only does it upload that for each folder, it uploads an invisible file for every single document. If I upload a folder with 3 files called apple, banana, and pear, in Dropbox there are 7 documents:
._DS._Store
._apple
._banana
._pear
plus the 3 actual documents
They only use 4KB each but they make organizing things an unreadable mess. How do I get it to stop. Can I get rid of the ones that already uploaded?
I know ._.DS_Store is an invisible Mac file but I switched to PCs a couple of years ago. That may be a factor. Many of my documents haven't been opened since, but do need occasional access to them.
