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Not related in any way, Little Flocker[0] is a similar program but for file access. It's a little rough around the edges but has been improving steadily. [0]:
by rbritton 10y ago
Not related in any way, Little Flocker[0] is a similar program but for file access. It's a little rough around the edges but has been improving steadily.
[0]: https://www.littleflocker.com https://www.littleflocker.com
- zomg 10y agoi used littleflocker for a few months and, while it worked really well, it slowed my machine down sooo much. perhaps the newer releases perform better.
- theli0nheart 10y agoThe newer releases are much, much faster. You should give it another shot.
- beagle3 10y agoCan it be used to stop OS X Spotlight from putting DS_store in every directory it sees? Edit based on gumby's response below: can it stop finder from littering in every directory it sees?
- gumby 10y agoSpotlight isn't putting that file there; that's where the Finder stores the directory-specific preferences (window size/position, list vs icon display etc). If you don't use the Finder (which I mostly don't) then you'll never see these files. Spotlight maintains its own database in /
- swaits 10y agoI have this at the bottom of my .zshrc just for this reason: # remove any .DS_Store files # (run in a subshell to suppress background job number info being printed) ( ag --hidden -u -l -g '\.DS_Store$' |xargs -n 1 rm -f & ) > /dev/null 2>&1