Stop MacOS from writing .DS_Store files on Network Shares

May 22, 2025•73 words

It will do this on every sub-directory you navigate to on any SMB write-enabled share you browse.
These files only contain Finder related view and other non-necessary metadata, they are totally safe to delete.

Run this command to ensure MacOS/Finder stops writing these files for network shares.

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE

Note there isn't presently a way to stop these files from being created on local filesystems. Thx Tim...

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I connected my Airpods Max's and Music launched. I don't want anything to happen when I connect a device. Turns out there's two pieces at work, the remote-control daemon looking for media keys, and the ImageCapture service looking at devices plugged in. Here's how to disable both. # disable the remote‐control daemon for your user launchctl disable gui/$(id -u)/com.apple.rcd # make it stick across reboots launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.rcd.plist # stop devices launc...

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