Clean out .DS STORE

Please be sure /not/ to clean out the other ._  files that you will see on your 2003 fileshares.
They are critical to any legacy Mac files ! They are not "garbage". The only person who needs to see them is you and just leave them alone :)
I can see no real, meaningful reason for normal users to "need" to be able to see invisible files and as long as they are not trying to view them, the .anything files will not show up.

As well, the trade off for disabling .DS_Store creation is that folder views for the sharepoints will never stick for your Mac users. As long as you know that you can tell users your policy is to disallow that for them due to the (harmless and tiny) .DS_Store files that you see as detritus.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/25664

not really as expected, but you get at least rid of those ugly and totally useless (for the world, not Mac users:) files

You also my try something like:
#! /bin/sh
dir=$1
[ -d /Volumes/$dir ] && rm -rf /Volumes/$dir/.{DS_Store,Trashes,_.Trashes,Spotlight-V100,VolumeIcon.icns,_.VolumeIcon.icns}

Might want to add usage to the script:


#! /bin/sh
# "mycleanup"
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
 echo "Error, usage: mycleanup -dirname"
else
dir=$1
[ -d /Volumes/$dir ] && rm -rf /Volumes/$dir/.{DS_Store,Trashes,_.Trashes,Spotlight-V100,VolumeIcon.icns,_.VolumeIcon.icns}
fi


and save the script of course by the name: mycleanup
someplace like /usr/local/bin or ~/Library/Scripts

make it executable with
sudo chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/mycleanup

or if anyone else uses your workstation (!) ..

sudo chmod 0750 /usr/local/bin/mycleanup

And you'll have to add /usr/local/bin  to your path, or call it by it's full location:

/usr/local/bin/mycleanup -sharename

where "sharename" is the name of the mounted sharepoint.

I'd use 0555 or 0550 ... (just in caseyou don't trust yourself:)

BTW, .DS_Store is just one out of zillion files being created/modified without user control, an administrator nightmare ...

Hi everyone,

Thanks for all your comments! Sorry I have not been around to close this question earlier, I was on Christmas holidays. Anyways, I will grant the full points to strung for a quick fix to disabling the creation of .DS store files on the network shares. Thank you ahoffmann and heteronymous for your contributions; sorry for waiting so long to close the question - I know if I had done so earlier.

If wanting to remove all DS_Store files on a drive at once try DS_Store cleaner it comes in both OSX and Window http://projects.ryangrier.com/

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I have been using BlueHarvest for quite some time now and am very happy with it.  Check it out here:

http://www.zeroonetwenty.com/blueharvest/

Look, again: If you want to trash your Mac users' files, then go ahead and just nuke those "pesky" ._  files.
Never mind that they *are* there for a reason. Let us know how it goes when your designers come for you with torches and pitchforks after you decide to throw them all out.

That's why I like Blueharvest.  The initial question is not about trashing these files on the OSX machine itself, but on remote server shares.  This tool is perfect for that.  Keeps windows shares clean and also FAT partitioned USB thumbdrives and external disks.  And it all happens automatically.