.Plexignore files on a Mac

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anyway to get around a mac not letting me use a . in front of a file because its reserved for the filesysytem?

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@scarpad said:
anyway to get around a mac not letting me use a . in front of a file because its reserved for the filesysytem?

There are no issues with OSX creating files starting with .'s

OSX:~ xxxxxxxx$ uname -a
Darwin OSX.localhost 17.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 17.6.0: Tue May  8 15:22:16 PDT 2018; root:xnu-4570.61.1~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
OSX:~ xxxxxxxx$ ls -al .plexignore
 ls: .plexignore: No such file or directory
OSX:~ xxxxxxxx$ touch .plexignore
OSX:~ xxxxxxxx$ ls -al .plexignore
 -rw-r--r--  1 xxxxxxxx  staff  0  9 Jun 21:27 .plexignore
OSX:~ xxxxxxxx$ rm .plexignore
OSX:~ xxxxxxxx$
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You just can’t do it from the finder :wink:

Need to use the terminal

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Just copy a file with a leading dot and rename it?