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10.4: Prevent .DS_Store file creation on network volumes
Authored by: JoseyWales on Jul 13, '05 11:44:57AM

Excellent! Now, if only I could get it to stop saving ._filename.htm files every time I edit filename.htm over the network using BBEdit...



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10.4: Prevent .DS_Store file creation on network volumes
Authored by: kyngchaos on Jul 13, '05 12:14:16PM

Turn off the BBEdit preference to save state, it adds a resource fork to the file, which is what those ._files are (I think) -

Text Files: Saving - Save Document State

Too bad you can't do this per document (I couldn't find it if there is), there are some files I would like to save state, but mostly I don't ( or don't care).



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BBEdit document state
Authored by: DavidShepherdson on Jul 14, '05 01:17:45AM

More recent versions of BBEdit (at least since version 8) store document state in the preference file instead of the document's resource fork, so this should no longer be a concern.



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BBEdit document state
Authored by: Tom Robinson on Jul 14, '05 02:07:11AM

It is still a 'concern', because if you're not on an HFS volume, the type and creator code are also stored in the .DS_Store--it's not just the resource fork in there, but also meta data.



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BBEdit document state
Authored by: derekhed on Dec 06, '05 02:41:03PM

I have turned off 'save document state' in BBEdit 8.2.4 and I still get the dot underscore files when saving to our Win2000 Server. Can anyone verify that this advice actually works for them?



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