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):
Existing users, log in. New users, create a free account. Lost password?
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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