{"id":1417,"date":"2011-03-08T23:32:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T05:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2016-03-02T11:48:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T17:48:37","slug":"how-to-remove-ds_store-and-appledouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/how-to-remove-ds_store-and-appledouble\/","title":{"rendered":"How to remove .DS_Store and .AppleDouble"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve shared your Windows \/ Unix drives with Mac OS X before, you may notice that Mac OS X will leave some footprints on your shared folders, such as .DS_Store<\/strong> and .AppleDouble<\/strong>. These files and directories are pretty annoying because they showed up in almost every single directory you accessed from the OS X.<\/p>\n

There are two ways to solve this computer problem:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Ask Apple to stop generating the .DS_Store<\/li>\n
  2. Delete .DS_Store by yourself<\/li>\n
  3. Set the shared folder to read-only<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Apple had a tutorial on how to stop generating the .DS_Store (See here<\/a> for details), however this solution requires you to run the command on every single account on every mac.<\/p>\n

    \n…If you want to prevent .DS_Store file creation for other users on the same computer, log in to each user account and perform the steps<\/strong> above…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    In the other words, you will need to run the command for (# of user on each mac)<\/strong> x (# of mac)<\/strong> times! <\/p>\n

    For example, if you have 5 users on each mac, and you have 4 macs. You will need to run the command for 5 x 4 = 20 times! Also, I’ve tried this method before and the problem seemed coming back after the upgrading the system (e.g., from OS X 10.7 to 10.7.1). Therefore I decide to go with the second solution: Delete .DS_Store by myself.<\/p>\n

    <\/div>\n

    How to delete .DS_Store and .AppleDouble automatically<\/h2>\n

    Depending on what operating system the shared drives locate, there are two different ways to solve this problem, and they are very similar.<\/p>\n

    Situation 1: The shared folder is on Windows<\/h3>\n

    If the shared folder located on a Windows machine, you may want to delete .DS_Store and .AppleDouble from the OS X. First, go to Terminal first:<\/p>\n

    Create a script<\/p>\n

    \r\nnano clean.sh\r\n<\/pre>\n
    Now you are in a text editor. Copy and paste the following into the editor:
    \n<\/p>\n
    \r\nfind . -name \".DS_Store\"        -exec rm -Rf {} \\;\r\nfind . -name \".apdisk\"          -exec rm -Rf {} \\;\r\nfind . -name \".AppleDouble\"     -exec rm -Rf {} \\;\r\nfind . -name \".AppleDB\"         -exec rm -Rf {} \\;\r\nfind . -name \"afpd.core\"        -exec rm -Rf {} \\;\r\nfind . -name \".TemporaryItems\"  -exec rm -Rf {} \\;\r\nfind . -name \"__MACOSX\"         -exec rm -Rf {} \\;\r\nfind . -name \"._*\"              -exec rm -Rf {} \\;\r\n<\/pre>\n
    Save the file. Don’t forget that we need to make it executable.<\/p>\n
    \r\nchmod a+x clean.sh\r\n<\/pre>\n
    Now you can run the script:<\/p>\n
    \r\n.\/clean.sh\r\n<\/pre>\n
    Unfortunately, OS X will recreate these files again after the files are removed. Therefore, I create a cron job to remove them automatically:<\/p>\n
    \r\nsudo nano \/etc\/crontab\r\n<\/pre>\n
    and put the following:<\/p>\n
    \r\n@hourly       root \/path.to\/script.sh\r\n<\/pre>\n
    This will tell the system to run the script hourly.<\/p>\n
    Of course, you can change it to daily, weekly, monthly etc.<\/p>\n
    <\/div>\n
    Situation 2: The shared folder is on OS X or Unix<\/h3>\n
    The idea is very similar. You can do the same thing except that the script will be on the server side.<\/p>\n
    Or you can simply make the shared folder to read-only. Then Mac OS X can not create any annoying files. Here is an example on how to set up a read-only shared drive on Samba:<\/p>\n
    \r\n[Public]\r\n        browseable = yes\r\n        writeable = no\r\n        path = \/public\r\n        force directory mode = 777\r\n        force create mode = 777\r\n        comment = This is a public directory\r\n        create mode = 777\r\n        directory mode = 777\r\n        available = yes\r\n<\/pre>\n
    Now you can say goodbye to .DS_Store and .AppleDouble.<\/p>\n
    –Derrick<\/p>\n
    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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