Mac Disable ._ Files For Drive
What are the ways to remove encryption of a flash drive? Update Cancel. Ad by DatadogHQ.com. How may I crack my encrypted USB flash drive that was encrypted with my Mac? When removing a user on Google drive, does it remove the files from their hard drive? To disable (turn off) Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) file sharing, follow these steps: From the Apple menu, click System Preferences.; In the System Preferences window, click the Sharing icon in the third row.
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 trueIt 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. [ robg adds: In my previous day-job, I know a feature like this would have been highly welcomed by our sys admins.
I used some of the previous hints here to try to erase my trails, but this is a much nicer solution!]. Is there a similar tip for stopping these files appearing on mounted non-Apple volumes, such as memory sticks, digital camera's, my Sony PSP and my SonyEricsson K750i mobile phone? Whenever I mount one of these on my desktop and copy/modify any files, the Mac OS (un)helpfully creates all these hidden files, which obviously the PSP and K750 don't understand. Currently I have to use a third party 'cleaner' application to manually delete all these files before un-mounting the device. If it was possible to stop them being created in the first place it would help immensely.
It would be interesting if we could apply this preference to a network domain, so that all users in a company (for example) would automatically get the pref, as long as they don't overwrite it. That way users wouldn't need to remember to make this change, and everyone in the network would just behave 'better' by this standard.
More Info: In theory there are 3 sets of preference locations on a mac: ~/Library/Preferences /Library/Preferences /Network/Library/Preferences The Pref system is supposed to use a known order of searching to find a pref, starting at the top of the list, working its way down (I don't know if the order I gave is the search order, btw). If none of the locations have the pref set, then a default, choosen by the app is used. This would allow The same file to exist on all three locations, but allow an admin to set some network wide prefs in the /Network folder (not necessarily all the prefs either, just one key-value pair), somebody to set some prefs for the machine, and then the user to override the prefs for when they are logged in. I actually have never seen the /Network prefs used, but I've also never been in a managed macintosh network environment. Whether or not the network domain ever got implemented I don't know, and how the /Network/Library folder would even get created or accessed, I am unsure.
Just thought it would be interesting to see this pref get set in the /network domain, so each individual user in the company would not have to set it each time they got a new mac or re-installed the OS, etc. Initially, this didn't work for me. After reading the original, it occurred to me that perhaps the generated plist file wasn't going to the correct place. Though it was in my user's Preferences, it was not in the system preferences. I tried copying the newly created ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktopservices.plist to the main system preferences folder: /Library/Preferences/.
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Then restarted my computer. Now it works. With the original suggestion, would it be possible that the user needs to be root before generating the defaults command? A Little History Interestingly enough, this is not a new problem. In fact, it may be one of the oldest problems of all the Apple operating systems! Way back in the early days, just after the stone wheel and before sliced-bread, we had portable disks with the enormous storage capacity of 800 KB!