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Then check/enable the Hidden checkbox and click OK. If you see just a few files or folders beginning with a period (.) or period-underscore (._), you can right-click the file/s and select Properties.

Once done verifying this, either of these two options will walk you through hiding files/folders that you no longer wish to see in Windows:

Set the radio button to "Don't show Hidden Files, Folders, or Drives".

Type in "Folder Options" and run this program.

There are a few ways to do this, but first make sure you have Folder Options set to "Don't show Hidden Files, Folders, or Drives". So our recommendation (rather than deleting these files) would be to make them hidden in Windows as well. How do we get rid of them?įiles starting with periods in Mac and Linux are made hidden automatically, but Windows doesn't handle period-prefixed files this way. _ files (since the drive type being used in these cases is not Mac-specific). Because Jungle Disk is multi-platform, Macs will split extra information for files into these.

No, this kind of thing also happens when storing data from multiple operating systems to a network-based drive or external hard drive. This information is referenced by programs when their associated files are opened on the Mac OS. _ files are created automatically by Mac OS X and contain metadata related to the accompanying file that was placed there by programs in the Mac.ĭeleting these files is not advised because they contain information that could not be supported by the file format that Jungle Disk is presented as for your computer (which is FAT32).