macOS Prevent .DS_Store?

[EricBrian]

Is there a way to prevent .DS_Store files being written to folders? They are annoying and interfering with my CVS projects.

Thanks! 🙂

 

[balamw]

interfering with my CVS projects.

Isn't that what .cvsignore is for? (Stopping the interference that is).

EDIT: This might help courtesy of google.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005070300463515

EDIT: Another link from Apple.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301711

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[caveman_uk]

AFAIK you can't stop it being written - it's used by the finder to store where icons are placed etc. As others have said you can get it to be ignored.

.DS_Store is also a PITA if you use a mac on windows shares. It's invisible to mac users but shows up to windows users. IIIRC however windows uses it's own hidden files and the reverse situation is true.

 

[balamw]

AFAIK you can't stop it being written - it's used by the finder to store where icons are placed etc.

From the links I posted, this will stop them from being written on network shares, but there are things you lose, like Finder comments.

1. Open the Terminal.
2. Type:
   

   defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

3. Press Return.
4. Restart the computer.

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[bond304]

From the links I posted, this will stop them from being written on network shares, but there are things you lose, like Finder comments.

1. Open the Terminal.
2. Type:
   

   defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

3. Press Return.
4. Restart the computer.

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Doesn't that only work on network volumes?

 

[HiRez]

I think OnyX (free) also has an option to disable .DS_Store creation, if you don't like the command line, and it has a lot of other cool things too.