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.DS_Store and other such files.............

Feedback Type: Usage Tip

Contributed by: Normand Turcotte Wednesday, January 28 2009 @ 07:25 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Good morning,

For the first time ever, when downloading updates, in this case Leopard Cache Cleaner and Mars24 I ended up with a whole bunch of files being placed in my Applications,
Documents folder, etc.

I tried getting rid of the first one for example ".DS_Store" and it just keeps coming back into the Applications folder.

Do you by chance have any explanation and also a way of getting rid of these permanently ?

I hate having stuff added to my 'puter if I never asked for it!

Thank you.

Normand Turcotte, 01.28.09

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.DS_Store and other such files............. - summitscout

.ds_store is a system file found in every folder. normally it is invisible.

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Wednesday, January 28 2009 @ 11:03 PM PST

.DS_Store and other such files............. - Normand Turcotte

Sorry for this inaccurate comment. As it turns out, this issue occurred at the very same time as I was downloading and installing software. The culprit was an application named "Show-Hide files" which you should NOT install unless you have an absolute use for it.
Norm.

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Thursday, January 29 2009 @ 04:50 AM PST