Excluding MacOS resource files

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How can I exclude uploading resource files generated by MacOS itself? It is difficult to add new exclude filter for each kind of file type as I encounter.

OS creates some hidden files for its own usage for some files, e.g:
for hello.pdf -> ._hello.pdf
image1.png -> ._image1.png

these kind of OS resource files are being also uploaded to remote.

Here is my exclude list so far:
https://pastebin.com/raw/sVV4R7gW

rclone: 1.39
Command: rclone copy /Volumes/SEAGATE/rclone/Files username:/Files/ -L -vv --exclude-from /Volumes/SEAGATE/rclone/excl.txt

OS: MacOS Sierra

Remote: Google Drive

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MacOS resource forks are represented as ._ file when using the AppleDouble format. You can exclude them all by addng ._* to your exclude list and removing all the other ones, eg

.DS_Store
._.DS_Store
.metadata
.localized
.com.apple.timemachine.supported
._*
Thumbs.db
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Thank you. It is worked as intended.

Once again thank you and all the folks behind this project. It is great.

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