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Files starting with a full stop - MacOs - Trouble and fix - Frusty_the_snowman - 04-06-2018
Hi all!
I've had trouble with playback stopping when Moode (or rather MPD) encounters a 'hidden' file starting with a full stop.
My filesystems on the USB sticks I use have become polluted with these from the OS X/mac laptop I use.
The fix is to use the command 'dot_clean' in MacOs
dot_clean /path/folder
https://lifehacker.com/377011/delete-mac-system-files-with-dotclean/amp
You'll need to know how to use the terminal to enter the command and the path to your mounted USB stick. The command df will help here ...
RE: Files starting with a full stop - MacOs - Trouble and fix - jonners - 04-08-2018
(04-06-2018, 06:04 AM)Frusty_the_snowman Wrote: Hi all!Thanks, Frusty. Those dots were a nuisance and my hidden files have now been trashed.
I've had trouble with playback stopping when Moode (or rather MPD) encounters a 'hidden' file starting with a full stop.
My filesystems on the USB sticks I use have become polluted with these from the OS X/mac laptop I use.
The fix is to use the command 'dot_clean' in MacOs
dot_clean /path/folder
https://lifehacker.com/377011/delete-mac-system-files-with-dotclean/amp
You'll need to know how to use the terminal to enter the command and the path to your mounted USB stick. The command df will help here ...
RE: Files starting with a full stop - MacOs - Trouble and fix - FizzyTea - 05-02-2018
I didn't have an issue with mpd stopping upon encountering a hidden mac ._ file. (To my knowledge).
However I encountered an issue where some directories of music had a hidden ._ file associated with each file, so I had song1.mp3, ._song1.mp3, song2.mp3, ._song2.mp3 etc. As a result when I added such a folder to the playlist through browse mode the album added twice, first the ._ versions which had no id3 info but did play and then the proper version.
I wanted to remedy this on directly my Linux (pi) fileserver rather than using a Mac over the network.
It seems dot_clean is Mac only (?) but I found this python script which worked very easily.
https://github.com/houbysoft/short/blob/master/tidy
I just downloaded the script. Put it in /user/local/bin. Applied chmod +x to it. Then ran it, first over a small directory to test then over my entire music library.
Thought it might be helpful to somebody.