DSWipe - 1.0

OK, it works, and the person who wrote this is not a professional developer - he's a professional web designer and a rather good one at that judging from his portfolio. And the app is free and takes very little disk space.

But the question remains: why use it? Not "why" as in "why do I want to get rid of those pesky Arno files" but as in "why would anyone want to do things this way."

Are there no other files people have to ferret out from time to time? What about old Sherlock indexes? Are we going to have to download a new program for that? The character string ".DS_Store" is baked into the program - it could be made a variable so the user could specify any file name.

And who says we just want to delete files? Maybe we only want to find them - and list them? Maybe do something else with them? Who says it's going to be delete all the time?

I understand why the author took the time to write this. He's annoyed by those files as much as anyone. But what I cannot understand is why you people continue to search out one-off apps to do one thing when you should be looking for general purpose apps to do any number of things. To me it doesn't sound like you're all that smart.

And as the author says at the end of the app's official help file, it's only a Terminal command line anyway. So why not get a parent or guardian to hold your hand and help you add the following after your shell prompt? You can stop making the rest of us look so STUPID.

sudo find / -name ".DS_Store" -exec rm -f {}\;

Why you would want to get rid of these files is beyond me, outside of getting rid of them to write CD's to ISO. Which again, you can simply delete them in most CD burning apps, so this seems even more useless. Now throw in the fact that these files are re-created everytime you open and then close the window you just deleted it from, and I'm left scratching my head over this one.

They simply keep the folder view settings. Every folder you have opened and closed will have them. This is good so that it opens in the same view that you last used it in. It WILL be recreated if you delete it the very next time you open and then close that folder window.

So again, what is this app for really?