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

Dr. Trevor J. Hutley hutley at geneva-link.ch
Mon May 31 03:41:11 PDT 2004


At 00:08 +0200 31/5/04, Lisbeth Zachs wrote:
>2004-05-30 kl. 21.07 skrev Kynan Shook:
>
>>What worked in this case was to delete the .DS_Store file in any 
>>affected folder, and then set the window how I liked it.  I forget 
>>whether I had to log out and back in between those steps or not,
>---------
>And where do we normal users find this DS_Store file? Sounds like it 
>is something invisable or available in Terminal. Or is it because I 
>have a Swedish system I can't find anything looking even vaguely 
>like it. :-)

Lisbeth - the .DS_Store is indeed an invisible system file that is 
"everywhere".

It seems to hold information about the Folder in which it resides.

I just checked on my Powerbook (search for .ds and invisible), and I 
have 1820 of them.
Cocktail takes care of purging them upon request.

Trevor



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