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Can you get macos to stop dropping .ds_stores all over the place? (I really do want to know) Because you can get Windows to never drop thumbs.dbs without much

• gabeio 3y ago
  > Can you get macos to stop dropping .ds_stores all over the place? (I really do want to know) You can prevent it from dropping them on network drives (SMB stores): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208209 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208209
  • jabbany 3y ago
    I know about this. Unfortunately it is in no way sufficient. I want it to stop dropping these _anywhere_, and I'd be more than happy to give up thumbnail functionality for this. However, afaik the "easiest" way to do this is apparently to bind a hook to listen to all file system writes by everything and then sweep up the junk whenever it is detected...
• sillysaurusx 3y ago
  Haha. The only way I found was to mount a read only file system. The ds store has to be one of the silliest design decisions. But say la vee.
  • keyle 3y ago
    "C'est la vie"