And if you have a USB with a bunch of .jpgs that you want to play as a slide show, you have to get rid of those pesky ._ files to do it. After much searching, I found a way to use my mac to remove the ._ files: using Terminal: ls -a will list all files, including the one starting with ._ More @Wikipedia
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