RAA - unmac

unmac / 0.7

Short description: Delete spurious Mac files under a directory or volume
Category: Application/Utility
Status: stable
Created: 2009-01-11 01:46:18 GMT
Last update: 2009-01-11 01:47:36 GMT
Owner: fxn (Projects of this owner)
Homepage: http://unmac.rubyforge.org/
Download: http://rubyforge.org/projects/unmac/
License: BSD-type
Dependency:
None
Description:

When a Mac copies files to volumes that have a different file system it adds some auxiliary files that represent different kinds of metadata. This typically happens with memory sticks, network drives, SD cards, etc. Mac archivers like zip(1) add special files as well, like "__MACOSX", you'll see them for example if you extract a Zip file like that on Windows.

The purpose of these special files is to let another Mac rebuild the metadata from them, Spotlight integration, etc. But if you are not interested in these features your directory or volume just gets cluttered. This utility removes all those extra files.

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