In article <stevewjackson-B5DC84.13001320072006@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
"Steve W. Jackson" <stevewjackson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <e9mats02bt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, steve <steve@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> [ snip ]
> >
> > the .ds_store , files do not need the window to be opened, they often
> > appear
> > in directories that have never been opened in the finder.
> >
> > However , that said, Linux and the cvs systems also have a lot of
similar
> > files scattered about their directory structures
> > if you use an IDE to build your jar files, most ide's allow an
exemption
> > list
> > , which excludes the named files from any build or system process.
> >
> > steve
>
> You'll have to show me evidence of the unprovoked appearance of
> .DS_Store files. In my years of using OS X, I've never found it to be
> the case.
It can be done, if something programmatically sets a property of the
folder or a contained file that is among the things that are stored in a
..DS_Store file. Here's my contrived example...
In Terminal:
mkdir foo;cd foo;touch blarg;ls -la
(Creates a pristine directory, creates a file in it, and shows that
there's no .DS_Store.)
In Script Editor:
tell application "Finder"
set theFile to file "blarg" of folder "foo" of folder "greg" of
folder "Users" of disk "Macintosh HD"
set comment of theFile to "arglebargle"
end tell
In Terminal:
ls -la
(Now there's a .DS_Store.)
Now, I'd say that to say they "often" appear in directories that haven't
been opened by Finder is not a general truth, but it could be that
someone has and regularly uses a tool that for some reason sets those
properties.
--
What I write is what I mean. I request that anyone who decides to respond
please refrain from "disagreeing" with something I didn't write in the
first
place.
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