On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 06:40 PM, Bill Reburn wrote: > Yikes, $150! > > I'll gladly pick myself up an iSight for that cash and perform a weekly > search and destroy of those invis. files myself. How hard is it to do a > search for ".ds_" and simply delete-all? Took all of about 10 minutes > to > complete on 3 - 100Gig servers last week... > > Sorry I don't have further info on trashing the problematic files > mentioned > below, maybe log in as 'root' and do it? Or if you know any unix you > could > superuser yourself in Terminal and remove them that way. There is a 15k download for a program called De_DDS that removes all the .DS_Store files in a dir... http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17763 that's what I use before I burned stuff to CD to get rid of all the DS files. Benn