Augh, resoruce fork files strike again... dot underscore files /AppleDouble files

Augh, APPLE!!!, why do you have to make Resource fork files? (Ok, I know why, but that does not mean I want them all over my windows server and being uploaded to my webserver.) I want an option to keep the frigging files in a local cache or something.

If you don't know what I am raveing about:"Resource fork (._XXXXX) files, (correctly called AppleDouble files) are created by the MacOS when an application adds a resource fork to a file on a volume whose format doesn't natively support resource forks. Such as SMB, UFS and NTFS. A file's resource fork may contain information which is important, redundant or both. source: http://www.zeroonetwenty.com/blueharvest/#faq

Fixes:
To prevent Cyberduck FTP from uploading these dot underscore files:
Add "|\._.*" to the reg ex of the files to not upload. http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=17491

Check out the new leopard command for killing off the dot underscore files
"dot_clean" http://www.macworld.com/article/132556/2008/04/geekfactor2504.html

Blueharvest is a pay for app that exists only to deal with dot underscore files

I have heard that tintertool may also fix this.

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# Posted By Britany | 7/30/08 5:12 PM
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