I totally hate to see those .dsstore and resource files on my Windows disks.
Is there a free program that will autodelete those files on specified disks on logout/eject?
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Best Answer
There are many ways to remove .DS_Store files; it really depends on what your exact needs are for the method you decide to use. To automatically remove them when you login/logout would be quite different from ejecting a disk, since it's a completely different process. You can disallow .DS_store for from being allowed to write to network disks, etc. by opening up Terminal and entering:
to manually remove already present .DS_Store files you can use:
which merges any such files with the parent file.