New Machine Content Oddness

ajb47

So I switched from my 5 and a half year old MacBook Pro to a brand new Lenovo ThinkPad Workstation. (I tried a new MacBook Pro, but I did not like Catalina at all.) Lucky for me, I have been keeping my content on an external hard drive for a few years, ever since I lost more than one hard drive in an earlier MacBook - to this day, I still don't know why that machine kept dying, and neither does Apple. Before the move, I copied all my content to a brand new (and bigger) external hard drive. Downloaded DIM, set up the directories, used it to download Daz, set up the directories, there's my content.

Except there's extra broken/empty icons showing in Daz for stuff I bought at other places. The actual icons are there, too, but I have these extras that are useless and in fact if I try to double click to load them, give me an error. Does anyone know why I have them and better how to get rid of them?

Richard Haseltine

Right-click on ne and select Brows to File Location - what is there in the folder? I suspect they are some Mac files with settngs for the folder (DS store) which are beng picked up as native files due to their name/extension..

ajb47

Ah, yes they do seem to be left over from my MacBook. They are named ._[ActualFileName].duf or .png. Opening them in NotePad shows some unreadable characters and also "Mac OS X" and "com.apple.quarantine" and some ID numbers, it looks like.

Seems I can get rid of them, I just have to figure out how without visiting every folder in my content library. But that's a Windows 10 problem not a Daz problem.

Thanks for the idea.

 

AJ