Pls ignore ._* files created by OSX

performancepixel

Just spent a few hours trying out some new themes and decided to go from ZpMasonry to Zenpage since it is officially supported. I really had this issue under both themes, but swapping over made me notice it enough to care.

I sometimes use my MacBook Pro to move photos up to my Linux share where I keep the albums for zenphoto. Well Apple, in their infinite wisdom, loves to leave ._* files lying around after you delete something using OSX. These left over files create the following errors in zenphoto:
{19149:Mon, 12 Aug 2013 02:58:14 GMT}
ERROR: Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x00 0x05 `[deleted path]albums/Year 2012/Europe/._DSC_7308.jpg' @ error/jpeg.c/JPEGErrorHandler/316 in [deleted path]/zp-core/lib-Imagick.php on line 372
([deleted path] is my edit to not give away my file structure)

So when zenphoto encounters the ._ file it pretty much stops building the page resulting in missing album names and images from the point where the problem was encountered as well incomplete css completion.

I ran a script to clean out the ._ files from the album directory and all is well, but could these files be ignored in the future?

For those encountering the problem that have shell access, here is clean up command that will work:
find . -name "._*" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

Thanks much....
Tim Brown www.timbrown.us/zp

acrylian

Sorry to say that I never encountered this being on Mac neither on my local MAMP install nor a live server. A server should actually ignore actual invisible files starting with ".". You probably should configure the ftp client (or what you use for uploading) to ignore these files.

performancepixel

Thanks for the reply. The server is my local LAMP box with SMB shares to the album directories for uploading. I created an hourly cron job to get rid of them for now.

Tim