pieterb/BeeHub — Issue #2: Better handling of "dot underscore" "._" and/or .DS_Store files
Author: pieterb
Created: 2012-01-16 16:26:47+00:00
State: open

OSX tends to write a bunch of special files to BeeHub that cannot be understood by other OSs:

- "dot underscore" files, starting with `._`. These files contain extended attributes of the corresponding data file.
- "Desktop Services" files, called `.DS_Store`. They are used by OSXs "Finder" to remember how and where files are displayed inside a folder.

It seems that, when multiple OSX clients are simultaneously operating on the same set of folders/files, problems arise around the `.DS_Store` files. Also, the information in the `._`-files may not be meaningful to other users.

It might be a solution to map these files to user-specific instances, with the same name but appended by `.username`.