[Ti] .DS_Store (was....need root help)

[Glenn L. Austin]

on 5/31/04 8:49 AM, Tom R. no spam at tr5374 at csc.albany.edu wrote:

> FWIW, IIRC the .DS_Store files--maybe among other things they
> do--hold info equivalent to OS9 resource fork info.  Without
> doing any experiments to check, I've had the impression they
> are used by Classic.  Whether they are recreated by the OS
> when needed if previously deleted, I don't know.
> 

.DS_Store files are used to hold the Finder's view information for that
folder, if the user has permission to write to that folder.

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