# Project from Mac to Windows creates strange files and folders

**URL:** <https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/project-from-mac-to-windows-creates-strange-files-and-folders/3661>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Tags:** solved\
**Created:** [January 6, 2020, 10:47am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/project-from-mac-to-windows-creates-strange-files-and-folders/3661 "2020-01-06T10:47:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![AllMediaLab](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/allmedialab/32/2079_2.png) [@AllMediaLab](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/AllMediaLab)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 10:47am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/project-from-mac-to-windows-creates-strange-files-and-folders/3661/1 "2020-01-06T10:47:15Z")

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Hi,

I moved a Pinegrow project without any problem from Windows 10 to Mac latest Catalina and when I move the project back to Windows I get strange grayed out duplicates of folders and files that appear only in Sublime Text 3. On the Mac all looks normal in Pinegrow and Sublime text.  
Regards,  
David

 ![Pinegrow-from-Mac-to-Windows](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/pinegrow/original/2X/a/a88bf4111a0bd572a79d47fe606a7d4aa6e339e9.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Emmanuel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/emmanuel/32/6294_2.png) [@Emmanuel](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Emmanuel)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 10:51am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/project-from-mac-to-windows-creates-strange-files-and-folders/3661/2 "2020-01-06T10:51:17Z")

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Not related to Pinegrow.  
These are specific files automatically generated by macOS (which are invisible from the macOS finder view but can be seen from the Terminal and seen from other systems like Windows)

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**Author:** ![AllMediaLab](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/allmedialab/32/2079_2.png) [@AllMediaLab](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/AllMediaLab)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 10:52am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/project-from-mac-to-windows-creates-strange-files-and-folders/3661/3 "2020-01-06T10:52:11Z")

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Ok did not know that thanks for the info! Can I remove them? I mean they don’t end up on my server when uploading the site? They contain a lot of data.

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**Author:** ![Emmanuel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/emmanuel/32/6294_2.png) [@Emmanuel](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Emmanuel)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 11:00am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/project-from-mac-to-windows-creates-strange-files-and-folders/3661/4 "2020-01-06T11:00:09Z")

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Yes. no worries, you can safely remove these files.

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**Author:** ![Printninja](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/printninja/32/1181_2.png) [@Printninja](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Printninja)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 2:30am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/project-from-mac-to-windows-creates-strange-files-and-folders/3661/5 "2020-01-07T02:30:38Z")

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Ha! After all these years Mac still uses that crazy dual file system where each file has a data fork and resource fork. Backwards compatibility I guess. Blech!