.DS files - what are they?

[jbrown]

And what do they do?? Can you safely delete them or do without them.

I found a preference pane called BlueHarvest they can be used to stop them being created ( so as not to piss of our PC using friends - because they can see them even if they're invisible to us ).

I wanted to check before using it though.

cheers

 

[iMeowbot]

They mostly exist to preserve icon locations in the Finder. You'll hardly notice them missing if you always use the column view.

Mac OS X 10.4: How to prevent .DS_Store file creation over network connections at Apple. This doesn't prevent them from being created on local disks.

An alternative approach might be to simply complain loudly whenever you encounter a Thumbs.db

 

[Sic]

They mostly exist to preserve icon locations in the Finder. You'll hardly notice them missing if you always use the column view.

Mac OS X 10.4: How to prevent .DS_Store file creation over network connections at Apple. This doesn't prevent them from being created on local disks.

An alternative approach might be to simply complain loudly whenever you encounter a Thumbs.db

ugh...i hate that so much. it was my very first automator lesson...teaching myself to remove that damn thumbs.db file