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Re: DS_Store files


  • Subject: Re: DS_Store files
  • From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:23:06 -0500

On Apr 9, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Tom Robinson wrote:

On 2009-04-10, at 02:15, Luther Fuller wrote:

One of my scripts sets bounds of folder windows. There seems to be a problem with the bounds not sticking with some folders.

I'm using 10.5.6 and the problem folders are those in /System/ Library/. These folders don't have a .DS_Store file. (Manually adding a . DS_Store file seems to fix the problem, but I don't like messing with these folders unless I know what I doing. And I don't! Hence the request for documentation.)


You could also try deleting the .DS_Store file in the problem folder and maybe its parent folder.

Another cause might be because the changes are only written periodically, so if Finder crashes you can lose the last x folder changes.

It's easy to open a . DS_Store file with TextEdit. I have found NO bounds info within a . DS_Store file. I don't know why including one in a folder would make the bounds stick. Hence the request for documentation.


AFAIK there's no documentation and no-one's been able to decipher the .DS_Store files. I wish they were .plists or similar.

Oh #!%$!

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