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minus-square@kipo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish0•3 months agoBlue Harvest for Mac will continually clean your removable drives of these files.
minus-squarekaty ✨linkfedilink0•3 months agoWhen 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.
minus-squareM.intlinkfedilink0•3 months agoThis 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
Blue Harvest for Mac will continually clean your removable drives of these files.
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.
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