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First of all apologies if this is a straightforward answer - I have scoured the guide and searched the forums for the answer, but still can't seem to get this to work.

I have a range of Hazel rules that are automating my photo workflow - everything is working fine and I end up with a directory structure as so YYYY/MM on the Mac.

I would like to copy this structure and contents to my linux box - I seem to have this working with the following rule:

Kind is Folder
Copy to folder: pictures (mounted network drive).

Everything seems fine until I listed the files on the linux box and saw the following:

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4 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac Mac    4096 Feb  4 22:09 ._2013-02-14 at 10-38-21 - 4928 x 3264.JPG
3068 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac Mac 3138595 Feb  4 22:09 2013-02-14 at 10-38-21 - 4928 x 3264.JPG
4 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac Mac    4096 Feb  4 22:09 ._2013-02-22 at 18-30-14 - 3264 x 2448.JPG
2708 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac Mac 2771125 Feb  4 22:09 2013-02-22 at 18-30-14 - 3264 x 2448.JPG


It seems to be creating directories for each individual file and I cannot work out why this is happening.

When I list the files on MAC in terminal I don't see these folders (hidden files), so I think it must be the last step in the automation process. Effectively I'm trying to map the structure and contents to the network drive.

I could probably run a bash script on a cron to clear up these unwanted directories but would rather stem it at the source.

Any help anybody could offer would be extremely appreciated.

Kind regards

I'm guessing that is the resource fork for the file. While resource forks are not really used much anymore it may be some odd side effect from copying to a linux filesystem that it creates a stub.

What happens if you copy stuff manually in Finder? Do you get similar files? Or how about copying on the commandline?

Hi, thanks for your reply.

I just tried to copy a file over in Finder and it's just the file that copies across:

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2000 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac  Mac  2047136 Feb  3 11:04 IMG_0337.JPG


But when I copy a folder via Finder I get:

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    4 drwxr-xr-x  2 Mac  Mac      4096 Jan 29 07:21 .
   20 drwxrwxrwx 14 root root    20480 Feb  5 20:42 ..
    4 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac  Mac      4096 Feb  5 20:42 ._2013-01-04 at 16-58-05 - 10800 x 2332.JPG
16416 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac  Mac  16804658 Jan  4  2013 2013-01-04 at 16-58-05 - 10800 x 2332.JPG
    4 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac  Mac      4096 Feb  5 20:42 ._2013-01-12 at 01-27-10 - 2448 x 3264.JPG
 1696 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac  Mac   1734405 Jan 12  2013 2013-01-12 at 01-27-10 - 2448 x 3264.JPG
    4 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac  Mac      4096 Feb  5 20:42 ._2013-01-17 at 19-42-04 - 2448 x 3264.JPG
 2852 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac  Mac   2920384 Jan 17  2013 2013-01-17 at 19-42-04 - 2448 x 3264.JPG
    4 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac  Mac      4096 Feb  5 20:42 ._2013-01-18 at 13-22-14 - 3264 x 2448.JPG
 2708 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac  Mac   2770859 Jan 18  2013 2013-01-18 at 13-22-14 - 3264 x 2448.JPG
    4 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac  Mac      4096 Feb  5 20:42 ._2013-01-18 at 13-22-25 - 2448 x 3264.JPG
 2248 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac  Mac   2301933 Jan 18  2013 2013-01-18 at 13-22-25 - 2448 x 3264.JPG
    4 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac  Mac      4096 Feb  5 20:42 ._2013-01-18 at 13-23-20 - 3264 x 2448.JPG
 3796 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac  Mac   3887036 Jan 18  2013 2013-01-18 at 13-23-20 - 3264 x 2448.JPG
    4 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac  Mac      4096 Feb  5 20:42 ._2013-01-18 at 13-23-39 - 3264 x 2448.JPG
 3088 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac  Mac   3159730 Jan 18  2013 2013-01-18 at 13-23-39 - 3264 x 2448.JPG
    4 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac  Mac      4096 Feb  5 20:42 ._2013-01-22 at 17-41-36 - 3264 x 2448.JPG
 2140 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac  Mac   2187961 Jan 22  2013 2013-01-22 at 17-41-36 - 3264 x 2448.JPG
    4 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac  Mac      4096 Feb  5 20:42 ._2013-01-23 at 09-04-01 - 3264 x 2448.JPG
 2804 -rwxr--r--  1 Mac  Mac   2868657 Jan 23  2013 2013-01-23 at 09-04-01 - 3264 x 2448.JPG


I wasn't aware of resource forks in MacOS but that certainly seems to be the case:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/14980/why-are-dot-underscore-files-created-and-how-can-i-avoid-them

So many thanks for the point in the right direction - I'm going to cleanup the files on a cron job.

If you don't want any of those files on the Linux drive, you can create a Smart Folder to match those files and have Hazel operate on that.