I hate you, .DS_Store
I’ve been known to gripe my fair share about problems with Apple, just as when my primary workstation was Windows I’d gripe about that too (and Linux, and so on). But I will definitely say that trying to have a cross-platform network-connected home with a Mac onboard running around inseminating every viewed directory with a .DS_Store file may be one of the single most annoying things about OS X, if not any operating system. Yes, I know it’s supposed to be able to be turned off with annoying hacks (and Onyx, etc.), but I don’t want to have to turn it off — they always come back anyway. Onyx doesn’t always work, the Apple sanctioned method is ineffective, and when a friend is over, when I reformat my machine, or add a new one, they’re back. Awful though it may be, it’s the “eight year bug” in Finder — still easily the weakest link in OS X — that does make for some interesting internet fodder, from the half-assed apology by .DS_Store’s mastermind, to a fleshed out written history of the .DS_Store file.
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Connecting to network resources using OS X generally sucks, but when you add the Finder to that it just sucks even more.
Have you tried Pathfinder:
http://www.cocoatech.com/
This is only slightly off topic because you were talking about ohh ess TEN (Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: /mæk.oʊ.ɛs.tɛn/)
Why do you constantly refer to it as OS “ex” during the Engadget podcasts? Every time I hear you say it I cringe. I hate to be that guy flaming on your personal blog but I love Engadget and I’ve been reading it ever since it first started so I have to ask because you must know the correct way to say it. I always wait for Pete to correct you but he never does…
I say it both ways, and I’ve heard it said both ways by all kinds of people. I don’t really care about Noh-kia / Nah-kia or Lee-nux / Lih-nux / Lie-nux pronunciation either. It’s just a product name and people know what one is talking about either way, so why harsh on it?
Amen to that. Never have I hated a file so passionately as .DS_Store, although Thumbs.db comes in a close second.
I second Thumbs.db
Because its the roman numeral for the number 10. OS X is the successor to OS 9 so OS “ex” takes a different meaning.
Yes, I’m well aware. And I’ll probably continue to say “ex”, so if it’s something that upsets you that much you may not want to talk to me about or listen to me speak about Mac stuff.
This is seriously funny. But get rid of Loser and you’re OK. We’ve got scripts galore to get rid of the buggers but since not even breathing in the same direction as Loser for over three years we’ve not ever got one back.
.DS_Store is an annoyance but there are more reasons to dump Loser. He can’t see the other file systems on your hard drive (he thinks /dev is an alias hehe) and so forth. He can’t make symlinks what I know, much less hard links. Etc etc etc. As a supplier once quipped to me, ‘I don’t know what it is but it’s sure not Unix’.
We do get these /Desktop DB and /Desktop DF, more falling into the category of ‘great things I really don’t need’ but they don’t propagate.
Again: this is seriously funny. In a few short words you deliver a broadside most would need pages for. You made our day and we haven’t had morning coffee yet. Cheers.