- Your Mac creates hidden.DSStore files whenever it browses to a new directory. These files store handy metadata and layout information, but if you're using a network drive shared with Windows users, these files may not be so hidden. Here's how to stop your Mac from creating.DSStore files on network drives.
- There's no built-in functionality in macOS to stop the creation of.DSStore files in a specific folder and its subfolders. There's a setting to stop the creation on networked volumes (i.e. Folders that really are network shares).
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- Blue Harvest 7 1 2 – Disable Ds_store Creation And More Efficient
Take a look at Death to.DSStore. I found that overriding HFSPlusPropertyStore::FlushChanges with a function that simply did nothing, successfully prevented the creation of.DSStore files on both Snow Leopard and Lion. DeathToDSStore source code. NOTE: On 10.11 you can not inject code into system apps. Feb 03, 2010 How to Prevent.DSStore File Creation. Snow Leopard users beware! (10.6.2) I had previously activated this setting which prevent.dsstore files from being created on my work network and it caused my system to crash and the finder to lock up and hang. BlueHarvest is an exterminator for your Mac’s unnecessary Desktop Service Store (DSStore) and resource fork (AppleDouble) files. Whether you manage a version control system or just want to maximize your available memory, DSStore and AppleDouble files are a nuisance.
Don’t you hate it when your file server is filled with .DS_Store files and .TemporaryItems directories? .DS_Store files are hidden files created by Mac OSX in each directory you access with Finder and stores custom attributes of a folder like icon position and background images. Since they’re ‘custom’ and besides that they’re annoying, you don’t want single suctom settings to be applied to a network share. So let’s disable those.
Open up /etc/samba/smb.conf and add the following lines to each share:
Now restart samba.
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Time to cleanup existing Mac OSX files! You can do that with this command:
You can also add the command above to a cron, to scan (f.e.) on a weekly base for these files. Battery health 3 1 0 1993.
Next to that, on your mac client, use this command to prevent any future creation of .DS_Store files on network shares:
There are several 'work-arounds'. I have not tried these. Maybe I could be motivated. I have Windows XP in a virtual machine.
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Blueharvest 7 1 2 – Disable Ds_store Creation And More Powerful
1) Tell windows file server not to store the files on the server:
2) Tell Mac client to skip hidden files.
As you would have to disable writing of hidden files on every mac that could connect to your share, a better option would be to stop this at the share and not on the clients.
All you need to do is to edit your share config (for example in Linux in /etc/samba/smb.conf) and add the following option into your share config:
Now no Mac clients can save any files with those patterns to your share.
[ At one time, Apple used the open source version of samba. So, I assume the veto option was present. Not sure what Apple has done in the latest version. ]
Blueharvest 7 1 2 – Disable Ds_store Creation And More Efficient
Summary of possibilities. At one time, there was a command line to turn off some or all of these hidden files. Didn't work in Mavericks. Don't know if it was restored in Yosemite.
Swinsian 2 0 3 – music manager and player one. Not sure why these files would interfere with backup. There files like any other hidden file.
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Blue Harvest 7 1 2 – Disable Ds_store Creation And More Efficient
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