How to get rid of "._" files when trans to cell phone?

I use a microSD to play mp3s on my LG chocolate (I know... i'll get an iPhone one day!).
The only problem is, if I drag-and-drop 30 songs to the card, when I use it on the phone, I now have 60 items, with 30 of them being duplicate titles with "._"
in front of the title and no way to delete them. These files do not play, of course. I am thinking they are not really "there."
I tried loading TinkerTool and showing invisible files on the card,but there was only 1, a DS store(?)file that I deleted. Didn't help. Is there any way to take care of those pesky pseudo-duplicates?

Charles Williams8 wrote:
I use a microSD to play mp3s on my LG chocolate (I know... i'll get an iPhone one day!).
The only problem is, if I drag-and-drop 30 songs to the card, when I use it on the phone, I now have 60 items, with 30 of them being duplicate titles with "._"
in front of the title and no way to delete them. These files do not play, of course. I am thinking they are not really "there."
I tried loading TinkerTool and showing invisible files on the card,but there was only 1, a DS store(?)file that I deleted. Didn't help. Is there any way to take care of those pesky pseudo-duplicates?
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Hi Charles,
Do you have an external card reader that accepts microSD media? It might be possible to delete the files this way. They are dirt cheap nowadays - SanDisk makes a 12-in-1 card reader for about $30.
Just curious - the Chocolate doesn't offer a "Delete" function in its media reader? (I have Verizon myself as well, but that phone never interested me...)
The "._" files are the resource forks that OS X uses to store additional data, as in a custom icon, for example.
It's part of how OS X manages files - files have data forks (the actual file) and resource forks (additional data). Assuming that the file has an applicable Windows application to read the file, PCs (in your case, the Chocolate) read the data fork just fine.
(for example, a Word .doc file created on a Mac will typically open fine on a PC)
However, Windows currently has no way to translate a resource fork, and thus will report it as a dummy "._filename" with no application to open it.
Steve

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