Comments on: How to recursively remove .DS_Store files on Mac OS X

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:23:33 +0000

I owe you and Google a big thank you for this! Haha, thanks for the tip, it saved myself and a coworker from a lot of frustration!

By: Danilo Stern-Sapad

Danilo Stern-Sapad — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:47:40 +0000

@Casper Vans & Nils Ellingsen
I mentioned at the end of the article how to disable .DS_Store files for SMB shares (external volumes). Enter the following command into Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

But the Apple docs are more explicit thanks for linking to them Nils. Basically this command works for SMB/CIFS, AFP, NFS, and WebDAV.

By: Nils Ellingsen

Nils Ellingsen — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:15:03 +0000

For quick access, try the ‘alias’ command, like this;
alias rmdss=’find . -name ‘.DS_Store’ -type f -delete’

By: Nils Ellingsen

Nils Ellingsen — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:05:29 +0000

@Casper Vans; http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1629 <- try this for disabling ._DS_Store-file creaton on network shares.

By: Casper Vans

Casper Vans — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:24:40 +0000

Does this command work on SMB shares?

By: Danilo Stern-Sapad

Danilo Stern-Sapad — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:51:19 +0000

Sounds good. Glad you found this helpful!

By: Claudio_Herbert Marsilli

Claudio_Herbert Marsilli — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:21:11 +0000

Thank you, Danilo, for having taken the pain to explain everything in such a way that even the dummy that I am was able to solve the problem! Thank you very much—drop me a line if you should happen to come by here in north-eastern Italy (lake Garda, more or less).