Death to .DS_Store

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Dec 25, 2011, 6:29 AM UTC

RKearney wrote: post #9

eslachance wrote: post #3

That's interesting... The PC equivalent is thumbs.db, which can be disabled through a simple OS option. One of those rare occasions where a PC is actually more user-friendly than a Mac. Oh wait, did I just open Pandora's box?

I think desktop.ini is more like .DS_Store than thumbs.db is.

Post by ashcairo » Sun, Dec 25, 2011, 6:31 AM UTC

joelackner wrote: post #4

blueharvest is a pay mac os app that does this: http://www.zeroonetwenty.com/blueharvest4/ don't get me wrong, i think this needs to be fixed at a higher level to really squash the trails mac leaves on other servers (just browsing a network share leaves these behinds).

Post by fiblye » Sun, Dec 25, 2011, 6:38 AM UTC

wavephorm wrote: post #15

Junk files like this being littered across filesystems just wreak of extremely poor software engineering. I would love to see Apple stop writing software and operating systems and just stick to hardware.

Post by drivebyacct2 » Sun, Dec 25, 2011, 6:40 AM UTC

fiblye wrote: post #16

wavephorm wrote: post #15

Junk files like this being littered across filesystems just wreak of extremely poor software engineering. I would love to see Apple stop writing software and operating systems and just stick to hardware.

But Apple doesn't actually make hardware, and their OS and hardware designs are meant to be paired together. OS X has some flaws, but I think it's better than the alternatives in the market.

Post by latchkey » Sun, Dec 25, 2011, 6:41 AM UTC

alexhawket wrote: post #5

I use TotalFinder as a finder replacement. It has a feature called "The Asepsis feature" which will redirect .DS_Store files to /usr/local/.dscache. Quite handy.