We previously noted that deleting .DS_Store files (repositories that contain various Finder properties -- "View" settings and positioning of icons, for instance and are created by Mac OS X to store ...

Finder crashes can be caused by the presence of problematic .DS_Store files. These invisible files are created (by default) anytime a new folder is spawned or accessed. They store information where ...

If you trade a USB thumb drive, hard drive, or other portable storage between Mac and Windows systems, the .DS_Store, .Trashes, and other starts-with-a-dot files left behind by Macs can get annoying.

Do you see all sorts of ".ds_store" and "._" files lying around on your external drive when you plug it into a Windows machine? Like this MacOSXHints reader, did you browse your company's network with ...

What is this .DS_Store file that OS X likes to put in every directory? What happens if you delete it, and is there any way to turn it off?

What is the DS_store file? These are hidden files used by macOS (proprietary), which keeps a record of attributes or meta-data about the folder in which it resides. It holds data such as the position ...

Does anyone know if Leopard will still write .DS_Store files to network volumes? Id really like Leopard to NOT do this by default. <BR><BR>Anyone know why Mac OS X (Finder) write .DS_Store files to ...

Mac guy Rob Griffiths points out a few brand new command line utilities in Leopard, like the handy dot_clean command, which sweeps away Mac system files that start with a dot and annoy the hell out of ...

Google Drive was seen flagging '.DS_Store' files generated by macOS file systems as a violation of its copyright infringement policy. '.DS_Store' is a metadata file commonly seen by Apple users when ...