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The problem I have is that I have the app working for Windows but running aground trying to resolve this issue on the Mac.

The danger is that if I go that far it might be easier for me to write an Apple native app.

I intend to investigate how Apple Swift / Xcode handles hidden files.

I would love to be able to replicate this in code.

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There is a Mac keyboard combo of Cmd Shift + which reveals / hides System / Hidden files.

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My fear is that my code may need to be hardcoded for every brand of camera. I know in Sony's case, if the AVF_INFO is missing the camera will give you a message. No doubt Canon and Nikon and Fuji will all use similar techniques to keep their SD card housekeeping directories away from casual misuse. Sony have obviously found a way to flag a folder as hidden (AVF_INFO). you can see that I have already removed all the dot and dot dot dirs, everything beginning with a dot. which so far has not revealed a magic option. Mac documentation for this command is extremely sparse and refers to general linux to get more info.

I have started to look at the ls command.

so my app will fail at some stage when it tries to take inappropriate actions on these directories. so other than hard coding this directory name, I cannot exclude it from a dir list.

the attributes function returns a value of NaN for this directory. but it is included in the contents of a Dir command. Again, this is invisible, by default in most scenarios. It contains a database of the images and video files stored on the SD card and allows the Sony cameras display thumnnails and other key features on a modern digital camera. This is a hidden directory created by Sony when they format Sd cards in their cameras. and subsequently encounter uncontrollable error conditions. I do not want to copy this dir by mistake, or include this dir for a user to select. I just need to make sure that I can remove it from my Dir list (eg. I assume this is both a Sytem file and perhaps hidden file. 'System Volume Information' is a directory included when I use Dir on a Mac.There's a request for the possibility of specifying an 'ignore' pattern, which is something normal for a crawling tool to have (the proposed workaround defeats the purpose of recursive bulk adding). _ files (it has a number of options, its purpose is to merge all the metadata regardless of how it's stored).īy far, the source of dotbar files are home network shares (which can even have HFS+ underneath) or USB pens (which usually come preformatted with a FAT-like system), and in all those cases it's not the extraneous OS that put the leading-dot files there, and if it was then they're certainly meant to be ignored anyway (I have never seen a data file with a leading dot, who does that?).Īnyway, there's no request for Calibre to ignore leading-dot files. OS X comes with a command line utility called `dot_clean` that can be used to get rid of. HFS+ volumes *can* store metadata natively, but they can also have so-called dotbar files and do make use of them if present. There's all kinds of scenarios in which the files can be created and they often end up appearing in HFS+ volumes as well. (You have to go quite out of your way to create a leading-dot file in Windows, Explorer doesn't even allow it.) (You may point out that Preview.app is broken too, but I have no hope of influencing the developers of Preview.app, and I think the issues actually are separate.) To be fully honest this is something without which I find the bulk import feature a bit broken. It's not at all strange that there could be files one wants to skip, whatever the reason. Probably not many had the heart to register with Ubuntu One to report that, or they just have no idea where the extraneous entries are coming from.Įither way, the ideal for me would be to be able to specify an 'ignore' pattern in the Add Books options. This is not a corner case affecting only a small number of users, it's something that will happen to every Mac user. title' entry (because the _ is converted to a space).

Of course it has no usable content, but it gets added to the database, with a '.

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So, to let it sink in, it's quite difficult to have a 'file.pdf' on a Mac without having a '._file.pdf' just next to it, with some Preview.app metadata that no one else knows how to read. That affects any file type opened by Preview.app, which is the default Mac file viewer.

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Every time you open a PDF on a Mac, the app that opens it creates a twin file with metadata, by prepending.