Felipe Alfaro Solana » Filesystem http://www.felipe-alfaro.org/blog A little bit of technology, security and networking with Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X, plus some personal opinions. Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:46:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 How to prevent the creation of .DS_Store files on network volumes http://www.felipe-alfaro.org/blog/2005/08/19/how-to-prevent-the-creation-of-ds_store-files-on-network-volumes/ http://www.felipe-alfaro.org/blog/2005/08/19/how-to-prevent-the-creation-of-ds_store-files-on-network-volumes/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:09:44 +0000 Felipe Alfaro Solana http://felipe-alfaro.org/blog/2005/08/19/how-to-prevent-the-creation-of-ds_store-files-on-network-volumes/ This KnowledgeBase article explains how to prevent OS X from creating new .DS_Store files when opening folders on remote volumes mounted using SMB/CIFS, AFP, NFS, and WebDAV. The creation of .DS_Store files (and more so, ._AppleDouble files which are not covered in this hint) is frequently the source of complaints against Mac users, who often leave a trail of these files scattered throughout the filesystem when “visiting” a Windows computer. Even with this hint in place, the .DS_Store files will continue to be created on local volumes (which is a good thing).

To prevent the creation of these files, open the Terminal and type:

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

It may be necessary to log out and back in, or even to restart the computer (which is what the article states), for the change to take effect.

Note: Most of the settings controlled by data in .DS_Store files are “cosmetic” in nature — for example, Finder window position, view style, icon position, etc. However, .DS_Store files in OS X also store Finder “comments” so in this sense, disabling .DS_Store files may result in loss of data.

]]> http://www.felipe-alfaro.org/blog/2005/08/19/how-to-prevent-the-creation-of-ds_store-files-on-network-volumes/feed/ 4 Case-insensitive filename completion with BASH http://www.felipe-alfaro.org/blog/2005/08/19/case-insensitive-filename-completion-with-bash/ http://www.felipe-alfaro.org/blog/2005/08/19/case-insensitive-filename-completion-with-bash/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:33:19 +0000 Felipe Alfaro Solana http://felipe-alfaro.org/blog/2005/08/19/case-insensitive-filename-completion-with-bash/ If you use bash as your shell and use filename completion a lot, you can get bash to ignore the case of filenames just like HFS does.

Just put this in your ~/.inputrc file:

set completion-ignore-case on

Then, when you type ls /appli in the shell and force filename completion, you’ll get ls /Applications like you ought to.

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