If you have a Mac in your house as well as a Windows network then you will know of .DS_Store files. They are apparently little thumbnail stores that OSX creates on disks that save time for the next time you want to preview a file or look at it in that funky cover flow view.
They are hidden when you are using OSX to view the share but are annoyingly visible to any Windows machine that may use that same resource. It annoys me at home, it annoys Howard at work even more as he sees his SVN repository filled with what he calls “Mac droppings”.
In searching for a way to avoid creating these on Windows shares I came across the perfect solution, it’s called Blue Harvest and it can be found here. It runs on your Mac and you can set it up to not create ds_store and resource forks on whatever storage volume you want. Beautiful.
By the way it also cleans up those annoying Thumbs.db files that Windows O/S’s create going the other way.
Stoop and scoop!
Tags: Apple, MacBook, OSX, Things that p*ss me off
