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

By: seo

seo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:22:30 +0000

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By: Rabah Rahil

Rabah Rahil — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:37:57 +0000

Any way to disable uploading to google docs and not having this folder be uploaded?

By: Dom

Dom — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 02:38:17 +0000

Hi Danilo, Two problems – my .DS store is in my Applications folder. If I drag the App folder onto Terminal it puffs into smoke. If I type it all in manually it tells me there is ‘no such file or directory’.
Any suggestions?

By: Stefan K

Stefan K — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:48:51 +0000

Hi Danilo, what about XSAN volumes which is not treated as network volumes?

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Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:13:48 +0000

[...] to: Danilo Quddus Stern-Sapad at Ariadoss.com for his method of recursively remove all DS_Store files. Michael Simons at michael-simons.eu for his alternative method of recursively checking md5 hashes. [...]

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:32:22 +0000

Less Geek

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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.