[X-Unix] [ANN] unmac

[Eric F Crist]

On Jan 8, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Xavier Noria wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Stroller <macmonster at myrealbox.com>  
> wrote:
>
>
>> I understood that this use case should not cause such nasty  
>> clutter. I
>> thought the garbage files were only created when the volume is  
>> browsed in
>> Finder.
>
> According to my trials you only need to plug a memory stick and do for
> example a ls(1). That's enough to get the dot files in the root folder
> like .fsevents and friends. If you in addition you do a cp(1) you get
> the corresponding AppleDouble.
>
> If you plug and unmount you don't get the root files, looks like you
> need at least to access the device somehow.

You can disable the create of .DS_Store files over the network with  
the following command:

com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

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Eric Crist