Comments on: Preventing Creation of .DS_Store Files

By: Tim Britt

Tim Britt — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:05:55 +0000

I’m also hooked up to Linux box on my local netwrok that I use for a staging server and other things on the web.

I usually like my folders to be displayed the same anyhow, and don’t really have a need for these files.

You might want to combine the power of this setting with the MainMenu freeware app that allows you to search and destroy all .DS_store files on all volumes. Meaning you would never have to look at them again.

Additionally, you could setup an automator action to automatically destroy or quarantine any file that it found by that name, so you could clean up incoming stuff created by other macs.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:46:51 +0000

thanks for taking the time to write this article. I started to use a mac, and i networked it with my web server. Recently I looked through the server while I was on my linux box, and found these .ds_store files all over my web site. LOL. I was worried it was a hacker at first as I was unknowing that these were mac files, and never see them from my mac. So this is just what i wanted, thanks

By: Ari

Ari — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:49:55 +0000

@Jean

Terminal is in Applications->Utilities

By: Jean Frye

Jean Frye — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:44:11 +0000

In your instructions to rid a computer of the >DS_Store extension, you say to “Open the Terminal”. Forgive my novice status, but what exactly is “the Terminal”. I find thes files in Photoshop CS2 on my Mac. Could you please be more specific?

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By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:42:41 +0000

I have a non-Apple mp3 player that is badly confused by .DS_Store files. Is there a way to prevent their creation on a specific volume?

Thanks

By: Cellounge Admin (Shane)

Cellounge Admin (Shane) — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 04:24:03 +0000

Maybe you could give us non-techies a background into what that file does. Is it really problem, or does it just take up space.