Indexhibit Support

Hello indexhibit!

in my gimgs folder I can find many copies of my images. the filenames start with "._" or "sys", with "th" or just numbers. how does filenaming work in indexhibit and why are so many copies created?

thanks, Sancho

First off, Indexhibit doesn't create files with ._ you might consider deleting these.

sys and th are thumbnails...you need them.

Hello Vaska,

thank you for your kind answer. So I'll have to look out somewhere else for the reason of these files.

Keep up the good work. I love this tool.

What? Everything in the gimgs files you need...or you can't use Indexhibit.

The ones with ._ they sound like temp files...or they could have been created by hackers. Be wary of them...delete them...

What's not clear? I asked if these files are created by indexhibit - you said no, so something or someone else created those copies. (._ndxz.users.php is another example)

I'll delete them and wait. maybe hackers. however they got access...

I actually said yes and no.

Something isn't right there...are you working on a local machine?

What do you mean with "local" machine?

Sancho basically when you upload images to use with an exhibition format, it uploads them to the gimgs folder, it then creates thumbnails for the different formats like Vaska said so don't delete the sys or th files.

The ._ (period and underscore) files are most probably temp files created by your computers operating system.

If your using Mac OS X, it will sometimes create: -

1. .DS_Store
2. ._*
3. ._.*

(* denotes file name)

These files are known as resource forks, and are used by Mac OS X to save 'special' information more info).

I'm guessing that when you originally downloaded Indexhibit, you extracted the zip archive to a local folder on your computer then uploaded them (with these newly created hidden files).

If this is the case, they should be fine to remove.

Hope this helps.

LeslieOA, thanks for your answer, of course you are right. Its just the apple system files, the ftp client made them visible.

again, thank you!