I often need to upload a large quantity of files/folders from my Mac to Box, and it's frustrating to end up with these hidden .DS_Store files showing up in every folder on Box.
It happens to me every time I drag a folder or group of folders to Box.
The folders are not empty; they often contain HTML and JS files, or sometimes just JPG and PNG images.
Is there any way to prevent this?
Hi Emma,
Welcome to Box Community and thanks for posting!
I understand that you've been uploading a large sum of files/folders in Box and to avoid uploading hidden files, I'd recommend that you start uploading per files instead of folders.
Thank you for participating in the Community!
^^What Joe said.
It's a complete pain to have to keep ditching those files, and uploading individual files kind of defeats a great feature of Box.
Greg, good question. It appears to happen only with macs. The same thing that happens when you copy to a pc format drive.
However, I use many different file services and this is the only one that I've seen with this problem.
It seems a simple answer would be to enable the user to prevent the display or upload of hidden files. But I don't build file servers so it's easy for me to say that.
Same issue here. Very annoying. The recommendation to upload files rather than folders is laughable.
Hello All,
Same issue here.
Solution: Do a search for .DS_Store within Box browser version, select folder location, select actual files and delete. (Can delete in bulk)
Worked well for me :-)
Onward...
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