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.ds_store no more (on network shares at least!)

Nothing exciting (for most people) but I’ve just finally found an easy way to stop creating the useless .ds_store files on non-mac network shares so I’m putting the info here for my posterity.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301711

1. Open the Terminal.
2. Type:

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

3. Press Return.
4. Restart the computer.

As found on www.textsnippets.com (which also may come in handy in the future)

[composed and posted with ecto]

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3 Responses to “.ds_store no more (on network shares at least!)”

  1. Bill Taroli Says:
    July 14, 2006 at 10:26 am | Reply

    Actually, I found a nice control panel that handles this and several other cases: BlueHarvest (see http://www.zeroonetwenty.com/blueharvest/ ). I sought this out primarily because I wanted MacOS X to stop writing those horrible dot files to my WebDAV share… I use it from Mac, Windows, and Solaris… and the other two weren’t amused by these basically worthless files.

    Anyway… thought you might like to know that someone had taken the time to put somethign together for not just this particular case, but for pretty much all the “special file” situations — even handles Trashes — on removable and network media.

  2. Karsten Dambekalns Says:
    December 1, 2006 at 3:47 pm | Reply

    TinkerTool allows to set this through a GUI, too…

  3. Validness Says:
    June 19, 2008 at 7:31 am | Reply

    Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation 🙂 Anyway … nice blog to visit.

    cheers, Validness.

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