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Clean Up Mac droppings on a Windows File System
Posted on March 29th, 2010 by roger
One of the most annoying thing a Mac does when it connects to a Windows network share is leave a .DS_Store file (if the share is writable). There’s no harm in deleting the files (to either Windows or OS-X), but finding and removing them can be tedious.
I made my life a little easier to clean those .DS_Store files off my disk by writing a batch file that you can downloads (in a 7z archive) via cleanup_afp.7z
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