Or do you just need to hide them away from prying eyes? macOS has solutions for all these things. ...

The advantages of ".dot" template files seems obvious. You can create document styles for reuse at a future date. Also, you can create automated events for templates that execute every time you ...

In OS X, the Finder comes with a handy archiving option (called "Archive" in OS X prior to Leopard, and "Compress" 10.5 and above) that is available in the contextual menus as well as in the File ...

to join the dot-underscore files with their parent files. Read OS X 10.5's manual pages (man dot_clean) for more information.