Pasted files have additional files pasted as well

[shatpank81]

Hi
Sorry for the awful title, didnt know what to put haha

Anyway if i have a video file on my mac, mkv, avi etc and copy it to an external hard drive it puts another file on the external hard drive with exactly the same name but puts a ._**** as well
E.g. I have ripped frozen dvd to mac and have it as: frozen.mkv
I then copy it to external hdd and plug it into my tv
On the external hdd i will have frozen.mkv and also ._frozen.mkv

That ._*** file is not visible on mac, but plug external hdd into my windows pc, i can view both files and am able to delete the ._**** file

So it appears that only my mac transfers that ._**** file but yet even with hidden files on yosemite enabled i cannot see it.

What is causing this?

 

[shatpank81]

Does this help to explain it? It's talking about files saved as .zips but the context is the same, the files that the OS generates.

so its an OS issue then.. thought so, just wanted clarification on it thanks