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.DS_Store (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] kipo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

Blue Harvest for Mac will continually clean your removable drives of these files.

[-] MissingInteger@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

This seems like a bit of a scam:
On your external drives you can prevent the creation of .DS_Store

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool true
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteUSBStores -bool true

If you really want to continuously delete DS_Store from both your internal and external hard drives you can set up a cronjob:

15 1 * * * root find / -name '.DS_Store' -type f -delete

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago

When I had a Mac, literally the first thing I did was set up a Hazel rule to delete every single .DS_Store in every folder.

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