At work we're letting one of our very tech savvy clients actually help out a little with a few development projects specific to him. However, he uses his own personal Macbook, and as he edits files on our (Windows) networks, his Macbook always creates a bunch of unnecessary meta files that we end up deleting later.
For instance, it creates a file called .DS_Store in any directory he opens, as well as "dot underscore" files for each file he edits. So for instance, if he's editing a file called "Main.php", his Macbook will create another file called "._Main.php". I've seen some forum posts on how
I know there are ways to prevent creation of .DS_Store filesprevent creation of .DS_Store files, but none about how to prevent creation of these hidden files prefixed with dot underscoredot underscore.
Is there any way to turn that off on Macs? Any way to prevent it from creating those files in the first place?
