Nov 30, '05 06:17:00AM • Contributed by: hoffel
They thus commanded me to remove them, which is not exactly something I'd consider fun. I know, you can turn off the generation of the latter in the Terminal, but that doesn't help with the resource forks, and it doesn't work for USB sticks. (Ever had a 128px thumbnail developed to 13x18cm? I have. Let me tell you, it doesn't look pretty.)
Enter the donationware System Preferences pane BlueHarvest. It allows you to turn the generation of those files off, either by volume/folder, or by file type. (It does a few other tricks, too.) I haven't had the chance to test it extensively yet, but so far, it has been working as advertised.
If ._ and .ds_store files have made office a lonely place for you, you might as well give the app a try and maybe, just maybe, your colleagues will start talking to you again!
[robg adds: This is a popular subject around here ... but this is the first I've heard of an app that can work on multiple types of files and volumes, so I thought it worth posting...]
