Comments on: Mixed Computing: Stop Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files from Polluting Network Shares

By: Wijk

Wijk — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:43:30 +0000

Try this. You can also turn off the .DS_Store files using the GUI by installing Tinker Tool, http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html. It also provides options for lots of other hidden settings. I would compare it to Tweak UI for Windows.

By: Kannan

Kannan — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:19:27 +0000

Thanks for the great tip. But I want to know the method to stop the .DS_Store files from polluting my PCs through my flash memory that I use on both the Mac & PC.

By: Norman Simonson

Norman Simonson — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:41:25 +0000

Does XP associate anything with .db? I could not find anything, but then I have made a few adds/deletes to S/W,

Thanks

By: ZB

ZB — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:08:19 +0000

How to remove this files from my Mp3 player? I using Mac OS X, but this solution works only network drives. Thanks!

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www.casitecenter.com — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:41:21 +0000

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By: Christopher Camps

Christopher Camps — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 19:19:04 +0000

This is cool but you still have to force everyone who connects to the share to obey the rules. A much cleaner way is to forbid those files from ever appearing on the server with this line in your smb.conf:

veto files = /.DS_Store/Thumbs.db/

By: Robby

Robby — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:52:12 +0000

Is there a good way to stop the dot files from occuring.

By: Hareron

Hareron — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:23:15 +0000

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By: Russ Turley

Russ Turley — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:02:36 +0000

Thanks for this tip. I knew about the Windows setting, but the Mac command line switch I never would have come up with.