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What\'s up with the .DS_Store files?
« Reply #15 on: May 12, 2003, 09:44:57 AM »
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What\'s up with the .DS_Store files?
« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2003, 07:52:16 PM »
Well, X has been no where near my hard drive and I have 6 'DS_Store' files on there. Most are in an apps Help folder. One is actually in the Extensions Folder. Three cam with 'Goliath 0.9.' All are listed as 'document' with one as a TeachText doc. Only one is 12k all others are 8k. So it may be more accurate to say that they come from 'packages' rather than simply OS X apps (what's the term - Carbon or Coacoa? blush-anim-cl.gif ). At least I think Goliath may have been a package! Of course, none of them are invisible in 9.1! harhar.gif

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« Reply #17 on: May 13, 2003, 01:58:23 PM »
You don't have X on your computer--but whoever wrote that application did! When he uploaded the application, he inadvertently uploaded the .DS_Store files too.

This happens often--you'll download a folder, unstuff it, and see a .DS_Store file sitting in it. What this means is that the person who created it was using OS X, the operating system put the .DS_Store file in the folder, then the person who created it stuffed the folder and uploaded it.

Packges should not contain .DS_Store files. However, if a programmer opens a package using the OS X Finder and rearranges its contents, OS X will stick a .DS_Store file in there--because, after all, a package is just a special case of a folder.

Carbon and Cocoa are the two application APIs for OS X. An application is written to use either the Carbon or the Cocoa framework, but not both. Carbon and Cocoa apps may both be distributed as packages; whether or not something is a package is unrelated to whether or not it uses Carbon or Cocoa.
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« Reply #18 on: May 13, 2003, 06:19:29 PM »
No doubt you're right about those files and how the '_Store' made it in there. Still just as confusing to see them in 9.1. Maybe a 'benefit' to keep them hidden in X! biggrin.gif

The Carbon/Cocoa thing was because I can't keep it straight about which one works only on X. 'Carbon' should remind me of carbon dating - stuff from the past - legacy systems - pre-X! Maybe that will help me! doh.gif

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« Reply #19 on: May 13, 2003, 06:44:31 PM »
But mine are hidden in OS9.1!

Doesn't matter... I've deleted them with a program that will do that with invisibles and they have not been regenerated... so I'd say to trash them.
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« Reply #20 on: May 13, 2003, 07:02:35 PM »
Yep, Carbon is 9 or X, Cocoa is X only.

CarbonLib is the OS 9 extension that's used to run Carbon apps. Delete CarbonLib from your system, and you won't be able to run Carbon apps in 9 any more--it provides the Carbon API for OS 9.

Just to make things really confusing:

There are three kinds of apps you can run in OS9: CFM68K apps, InterfaceLib apps, and Carbon apps. There are three kinds of apps you can run in OS X: Carbon apps and Cocoa apps, which use the GUI, and BSD apps, which are Unix programs that are command-line-only.

If you add X11 to your OS X system, you can now run four kinds of apps in X: Carbon, Cocoa, BSD, and XWindows. XWindows apps also use a GUI, but it's not the Mac GUI, it's the XWindows GUI.

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« Reply #21 on: May 15, 2003, 11:08:47 PM »
QUOTE(tacit @ May 13 2003, 8:02 PM)
"... remember to bring a pencil..."


Pencil?  What's that?  wink.gif

I get DS_Store files with a PC label on them with each folder from my Compact Flash cards for my Digital camera.

The odd thing is that when I was running X on this machine it would not recognize my card reader and I would have to boot into 9 to use it. X is now on a partition but is not used. (long story)

So why are all those DS_Store files in there, and why are they embellished with a PC label?

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« Reply #22 on: May 15, 2003, 11:15:52 PM »
Syntax error with last post stuck the thread in place.

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« Reply #23 on: May 17, 2003, 09:34:59 PM »
If your camera, or the card, has ever been mounted on an OS X system, then it will have a .DS_Store file. As far as OS X (or other operating systems) is concerned, a digital camera is a hard disk. OS X places a .DS_Store file on any disk--even if it is a Compact Flash card, a USB Pocket Drive, or other non-conventional "disk."

As far as OS X is concerned, if it stores data of any kind, it's a disk and it gets a .DS_Store file.

It has a "PC" icon in OS 9 because OS 9 puts a generic "PC" icon on any file located on any non-Mac volume which contains any file type it does not recognize.
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« Reply #24 on: October 01, 2003, 08:50:29 AM »
Another App to clear them. I tried it. So far so good. smile.gif

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo...fo/macosx/17763

Found from this dealmac Thread.

http://forums.dealmac.com/read.html?f=1&i=...79669&t=1379669

PS. No Documentation with the App.

I selected the Volume and it ran for a long while.

Had the spinning Beach Ball and I didn't know if it was working.

Came back after a while and it was done.

Re-Booted. Things seemed better. Snake oil? smile.gif
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« Reply #25 on: October 01, 2003, 10:17:42 AM »
I just read that the .DSstore files will still be around with Panther.
So no change there...
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