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by joelackner 5284 days ago
blueharvest is a pay mac os app that does this: http://www.zeroonetwenty.com/blueharvest4/

don't get me wrong, i think this needs to be fixed at a higher level to really squash the trails mac leaves on other servers (just browsing a network share leaves these behinds).
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ashcairo 5284 days ago
TinkerTool allows you to disable the creation of those files on network drivers.. It's free too.

TinkerTool.. let's you tink, without leaving a stink? http://bresink.de/osx/0TinkerTool/details.html

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stfn 5283 days ago
There is a built-in option to disable .DS_Store creation on network and removable drives. Run the following in a terminal then log out to restart your session.

  defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
source: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1629
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