Files starting with a full stop - MacOs - Trouble and fix

[Frusty_the_snowman]

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...tclean/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 ...

[jonners]

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...tclean/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 ...

Thanks, Frusty. Those dots were a nuisance and my hidden files have now been trashed.

[FizzyTea]

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.