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Subject: .DS_Store

SoulTaker opened this issue on Aug 23, 2006 · 11 posts
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SoulTaker ( ) posted Wed, 23 August 2006 at 5:10 PM · edited Sun, 02 February 2025 at 4:54 AM

just what is a ".DS_STORE File", i DL a freebe and this thing is in every folder.

Miss Nancy ( ) posted Wed, 23 August 2006 at 5:15 PM

if using XP, delete it. when a mac user zips a freebie, he/she is supposed to do it in a way that strips out that stuff.


SoulTaker ( ) posted Wed, 23 August 2006 at 5:16 PM

thanks

Argon18 ( ) posted Wed, 23 August 2006 at 6:33 PM

Those things drive me crazy since I have to use my external hard drive to switch between the Macs in the college computer lab and my PC at home, the drive gets full of the trashes and ds store files that the Mac leaves all over it


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Bobasaur ( ) posted Fri, 25 August 2006 at 9:43 PM

Those accompany pretty much every file transfered from Mac to PC. They can't be seen on a Mac and I don't think there's a way to strip them when you're on a Mac.

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xantor ( ) posted Sun, 27 August 2006 at 6:40 PM

A lot of free disks with magazines have these files.

kaveman ( ) posted Mon, 28 August 2006 at 12:36 AM

Attached Link: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/18885

Under Macintosh OSX .DS_Store holds the information which controls the way a folder will be opened; i.e., the shape and size of the window, the position of the window on the desktop and whether file, folder or icon view has been selected. If you were to delete the .DS_Store the folder would revert to the system default next time it is opened and a new blank .DS_Store would appear (invisibly). We have to put up with a constant stream of PC, junk files in our e-mail .DS_Store is just our little payback:-)

Argon18 ( ) posted Mon, 28 August 2006 at 12:41 AM

Quote - We have to put up with a constant stream of PC, junk files in our e-mail .DS_Store is just our little payback:-)

The difference being that the email files are confined to just 1 folder, and the ds store files are spread out all over every folder on the whole drive, hardly fair sn't it?


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Gongyla ( ) posted Mon, 28 August 2006 at 1:03 AM

You can do a search for them and then whipe them out. All of them. Besides: XP also has such a file when you have checked fast thumbnail preview. Or when you download something with images in. These files can become tens of megabytes fat. Like leeches.

As Poser runs on both "languages" and this is a Poser forum, it's quite childish to talk of "paying back". 


kaveman ( ) posted Mon, 28 August 2006 at 4:59 AM

Please forgive my childish jest, I also provided both a clear answer to the question and a link to software which can help solve this "Problem", how childish of me, so sorry.

Miss Nancy ( ) posted Mon, 28 August 2006 at 2:40 PM

thx fr the link, kave. we'll let mac freestuff suppliers and vendors know about it.


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