[Ti] need root help

[Tom R. no spam]

You can do a regular Find for .DS_Store, with Find visibility set
to "all".

As a caution, if you're not familiar with command line stuff, if
you use the "rm" command in Terminal window, use "rm -i", which
will give you a prompt telling you what it's about to delete
before it deletes them.

On Sun, 30 May 2004, Kynan Shook wrote:

> There is one in every folder; per standard conventions, anything named
> beginning with a period (note that the name is ".DS_Store", with a
> period at the front) is hidden from the user.  For those not afraid of
> the terminal, you can do "cd /path/to/a/folder/" to find a specific
> folder (cd = change directory), and then "ls -a" to list all the files,
> including hidden ones (ls = listing of directory contents).  To see
> what directory you are currently in, type "pwd" (= print working
> directory).  To delete the file, you can use rm (remove), but I'm not
> going to describe how to use that command: if you're familiar with it,
> use it.  If you're not, I'd recommend using a GUI tool of some sort;
> there are a number that can be used to either delete the hidden
> .DS_Store files, or to show all hidden files in the Finder.
> I don't have time at the moment to look up specific names; somebody
> else can chime in here, or ask me later and I can look if you can't
> find any.
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