Comments on: Mac OS X: Disable the creation of .DS_store files

By: Reiner Saddey

Reiner Saddey — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 20:44:27 +0000

Authorative source: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1629

By: mike

mike — Sun, 30 Jun 2013 12:31:36 +0000

And the statement above has been corrected. Its TRUE that works! Not “true”. Case is sensitive and IMPORTANT! Despite what I’ve read elsewhere online it’s TRUE that prevents those pesky .DS_Score files from appearing.

PS: You might already have a heap of them…

In a Windows command line, move into your shared directory and type: “del /S /A:H .DS_Store”

For example:

d:\>del /S /A:H .DS_Store

(Where “d:” is the shared drive file letter).

PSS: Similar to the above, del /S /A:H FINDER.DAT is also quite a useful command if you have earlier Mac OS’s running over Windows shares.

By: Barry

Barry — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 03:54:44 +0000

The statement above doesn’t work as written, you need to remove the “-bool” operator.
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores TRUE