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How to remove DS_Store forever for good (not hide them but remove them)?

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Mar 15, 20262705 views
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How do I remove and prevent from ever being created the DS_Store files on Mac OSX? I found this article, http://krypted.com/mac-os-x/no-more-ds_store-files/, that describes preventing them from being created on network storage devices but says it doesn't work for local storage (IE my hard drive). T…

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The short answer is that you have to hack the Finder binary at runtime to prevent it from creating them. There is no official Apple-blessed way of doing this without directly hacking binaries. "There's an app for that" nowadays. See this blog and th…

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