We have a strange issue that I am trying to find an answer to. We have several Macs in our design studio. Often we need jpg and png files created on these Macs to be accessible by the Windows PCs. However when the Macs save the files to our Windows 2003 files server sometimes, and I haven’t been able to pinpoint a pattern, some PCs do not see the files; some do and some don’t.
When the Macs save the files to the server they always save two files a hidden file with a ._ prefix and a standard jpg/png file. The files with the ._ prefix I believe are Mac only resource files not relevant to the PCs. But often the PCs can see the ._ files but not the real data files.
Not sure if the Mac operators are doing something strange occasionally when they save the files or if this is a Windows server/PC issue. Anyone seen this problem?