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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Kill Those .DS_Store and Thumbs.db files

Posted on 5:38 AM by Unknown
If you have to live in a mixed Macintosh and Windows PC network environment, then you can't help but have noticed the appearance of .DS_Store files appearing in Windows folders where a Mac user has been working. Similarly, if Windows users are accessing shared Mac OS X volumes, then the Mac users will start to see Thumbs.db files showing up.

Well, the UNEASYsilence blog has a useful article on just that subject. Just go on over to…

Mixed Computing: Stop Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files from Polluting Network Shares


…and follow the instructions on how to stop these pesky files appearing.
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