<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Might I suggest:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">find path/to/sample/dir -name "._*.wav" -delete</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">:)<br class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>Test first without the "-delete" flag.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 4, 2021, at 6:09 PM, Samuel Burt <<a href="mailto:composer.samuel.burt@gmail.com" class="">composer.samuel.burt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Same directory. These samples were created by someone else, so I don't know what program created them. </div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 4, 2021, 10:39 AM Dan Wilcox <<a href="mailto:danomatika@gmail.com" class="">danomatika@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">I'm interested in more info about this behavior. I'm only aware of macOS Finder creating .DS_Store files and temp directories so Spotlight can index and show media playback via Quick Look. Is something creating hidden temp files in the same directory as the audio files themselves or are these in a subdirectory?<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 4, 2021, at 3:47 PM, <a href="mailto:pd-list-request@lists.iem.at" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">pd-list-request@lists.iem.at</a> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important" class="">I'm loading a directory of audio files but there are a ton of ._files.wav</span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class=""><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important" class="">that were created by OSX. I've got a bunch of audio sample directories like</span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class=""><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important" class="">this and I could go through and remove all these files, but this software</span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class=""><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important" class="">will also be used by someone on a Mac, so it's better to just ignore this</span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class=""><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important" class="">inconvenient OS behavior if possible.</span></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div>
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