Hi. It's interesting this came up today. I just heard of a program
on the mac cast called Tinker Tool. It kind of reminds me of tweak
ui on the windows side. There's a setting in there to disable the
creation of .ds_store files on network shares. So if you're not
comfortable with the command line, this might be the way to go. You
can find tinker tool at this address.
http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html
The author of this utility also has some other stuff worth looking at.
Darcy
On 1-Sep-06, at 7:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any one know what these desktop hidden files are?
.DS_Store
The .DS_Store file contains information on Finder properties for
files and folders and the way they appear on the desktop --
for example, the size and position of windows, view settings that
specify whether file, folder, or icon mode is used, location for
the positions of icons, etc.
.DS_Store files may also get created if you access a lot of shared
files on your network, such as from your Windows computers.
You can also suppress creation of .DS_Store files for network-shared
files according to a hint from the Forever Geek web site:
<begin quote>
Just found a way to prevent the creation of these files on network
shares. It basically involves typing a command in Terminal and
restarting your computer.
1. Open the Terminal.
2. Type:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores
true
3. Press Return.
4. Restart the computer.
That's it. Now, go forth, and litter your network no more.
<end quote>
Source:
http://forevergeek.com/apple/preventing_creation_of_ds_store_files.php
Also, the shareware utility Cocktail apparently has a feature
under the
"Files" menu that allows you to clean .DS_Store files from a disk
or folder.
Hope this helps. I don't know about the other hidden files you
mentioned,
and I haven't seen most of them. I suspect the .localized file
contains
information about your language localization if you choose to use
another language (such as French, German, Spanish, etc.) for you main
dictionaries and help commands.
Cheers,
Esther
