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DeathToDSStore
C2014–2017
snielsen / DeathToDSStore

DeathToDSStore

.DS_Store is an abomination and must be stopped.

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
399GitHub stars
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.DS_Store is an abomination and must be stopped.

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HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-07-20 19:06:14 UTC to 2017-09-25 21:27:54 UTC.

012014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Yes, that configuration still works [1]. DeathToDSStore [2] works as well, but like Asepsis it requires you to disable SIP, and that's very much not recommended! I wonder if its possible to hook into Spotlight real-time (with mdfind?) and just delete them right after its created. Together with disabling it on networks that should be "good enough" to not see them. Might be problematic with removeable media such as USB sticks though. If you're sync/unmounting those via command line, consider a find with xargs [3] on that media before unmounting. I haven't looked at Blue Harvest as already suggested. If that still works (without disabling SIP) I'm curious how they do that. [1] defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true [2] https://github.com/snielsen/DeathToDSStore [3] find /path_to_USB_media -name .DS_Store -prin
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