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    Requested Ignore files generated by mac photoshop

    Our designers use photoshop for mac and it spews out hidden files with the pattern "._XYZ.psd". It would be nice if irfanview just ignored these files when browsing back and forth.

    #2
    I'm not familiar with the psd format, i only know that IV can open it. And i have no converter to test this.
    Is it so in this case that each regular 'psd' file has this XYZ.psd coming with it ?
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      #3
      No, it would have "._" then the file name.

      For instance, for a file called "Picture 1.png", there would be another file called "._Picture 1.png".

      It's extra info that HFS+ supports but that FAT32 and NTFS do not.
      Thus, when a file is transferred from Mac OS X to Windows, that extra file gets created to preserve the info.

      The solution to this would be to have a preference to ignore files that start with "._"

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        #4
        Ah, this clears up the case, and so with any format.
        A rather silly thing by the way to give the info-file the same extension.
        I don't think IV is capable to solve this at the moment. The command-line only has /filepattern="x" which is a preference,
        not an exclusion.

        So for the moment it should be done with some kind of pre-action to change the extension of these files into something not
        recognized by IV.
        For example with the commandline (in the proper directory) :
        ren ._*.png ._*.npg
        before running Irfan View. And these 2 actions can of course be merged into a .bat-file.
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