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.DS_Store problems
Is there any way to the Finder from playing with .DS_Store files on Expandrive-mounted partitions? Can we at least teach Expandrive not to try copying those files to such drives?
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Inappropriate?I'm not sure what's going on; ExpanDrive already does this. Are you sure the .DS_Store file weren't present already, before ExpanDrive touched the server? -
Inappropriate?If I drag entire directories from my (Mac) hard drive over to the remote (linux) drive, the copy will frequently fail because it can't copy .DS_Store. I've completely deleted the linux directory (and its parent directory) several times---the only place these files are coming from is Expandrive, and still something is going screwy with the .DS_Store files.
(I'd much rather yell at Apple's Finder to actually make use of their "extended attributes" system instead of cluttering up the filesystem, but I guess we've got to live with the behavior for now.)
Incidentally, I haven't check whether Expandrive copies extended attributes...verdict? -
Inappropriate?Expandrive copied .DS_Store for me as well recently - I had a fresh folder on a server that I only touched with expandrive and when i attempted to copy over some subfolders it told me there was already a .DS_Store blah blah and stopped copying. Ended up deleting the directory and renaming another.
Maybe this .DS_Store ignore got broken in the last update, I dont' remember it happening before.
I’m sad
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Inappropriate?This is still a problem.
I have view invisibles turned on in my Finder.
Dragging over a list of files that has .DS_Store included will fail.
It's notably failing where there already exists a .DS_Store file on the mounted server (not sure why that ever successfully dragged over).
The error prevents me from dragging large lists of files over easily.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?this might come handy:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1629
(prevent .DS_Store file creation over network connections) -
Inappropriate?very nice, if it still works the same in Leopard that would solve the issue!
I’m confident
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Disabling .DS_Store creation might work around the problem in some cases (at a price), but the underlying problem with ExpanDrive would still be there. -
what would the price be if it only disables the creation of them over network connections? I can't think of a case where I would need that, though perhaps people transferring files over a home network or something would find it useful.
