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iRemove .DS_Store files

Deletes the invisible .DS_Store files on all mounted disks.

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Uniformed developer?

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Contributed by: bousozoku Wednesday, July 16 2008 @ 07:26 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Have Not Tried

Recommend Product: NO

I'm surprised to hear that programmers leave these files in the various folders. That's a new one for me.

It sounds as if someone doesn't much about Mac OS X and is apparently annoyed but hasn't done the research as to why Finder creates them. Hopefully, the script can't do much damage.

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Uniformed developer? - fred.brunner

Uninformed users, too. Those serve a purpose, it's where the Finder stores info on the current view settings for a folder. So a developer with a custom window size for a displayed folder view might leave that there on purpose. Dev might also mention to folk that nuking all the .DS_Store files will reset all Finder views to default.

Main issue with these things is on shared network drives, but Apple has this covered, you can turn this off now (since Leopard at least):

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

in Terminal. Or download Onyx, it can also configure this.

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