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Well it's pretty simple. The Finder allows you to customize a folder (icon positions, background picture) and that data has to be stored somewhere. You can tel
by LeoPanthera 6y ago
Well it's pretty simple. The Finder allows you to customize a folder (icon positions, background picture) and that data has to be stored somewhere.
You can tell the OS not to create them on network mounted drives:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
- anoncareer0212 6y ago> Off the top of my head I can think of a number of other solutions to store directory metadata: a Finder-specific database mapping values to directory paths, resource forks (ala OS 9), etc.
- Someone 6y agoIf you go for “resource forks”, you still would need a file. And nitpicking, that wouldn’t be “ala OS 9”. That OS had a desktop database on each volume.
- m463 6y agoit would be nice if there were more settings for this - external drives - non hfs/apfs drives - everywhere