TextEdit Leaving Behind Weird Folders on SMB
When saving text files to an SMB server with TextEdit on macOS, you may run into this issue where it leaves behind a ton of directories every save, like so:
name-of-text-file.txt
name-of-text-file.txt.sb-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxx
Where xs are replaced by some random string of characters and numbers.
And sometimes, TextEdit will completely fail to save a file.
Well, it might be because you’re disallowing dot files on your SMB server with something like the following configuration:
# Get rid of macOS dot files crap (fuck you macOS)
veto files = /._*/.DS_Store/
While this does disallow macOS dot files it also breaks saving with TextEdit, because these .sb directories house ._name-of-text-file.txt files, which is presumably used to save file attributes.
I dislike TextEdit doing this, and I’m pretty sure there is some solution to turn off the functionality, but since this is a server used by multiple people, many of whom are tech illiterate, I just decided to remove those lines from the configuration. Damn you, macOS.