Block certain filename patterns from syncing?

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Problem

macOS autocreates OS-specific special meta files starting with dot+underscore (e.g. ._foo.bar)

When these get sync’d to a Windows machine, they distract attention from the actual files, and behave badly when clicked.

Of course they can be deleted, but new ones keep popping up.

Solution?

Can filenames beginning with ._ be prevented from syncing?

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You need to add ._* to your ignore patterns. Please check https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring for more details.

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I’m using what I call “Common Ignore Patterns” – the Ignore Pattern for each Device with that folder simply includes that file.

Because I wanted to ignore both Mac system-created files and incomplete Chrome downloads, my my common-stignore.txt reads as follows:

(?d).DS_Store

(?d).Spotlight-V100

(?d).Trashes

(?d)._*

(?d)Thumbs.db

(?d)ehthumbs.db

(?d)_gen

*.stackdump

*.crdownload

(?i)desktop.ini

I hope this is helpful. And my apologies for the formatting, apparently I don’t know how to make that work right today.

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