Prevent the creation of .DS_Store on network connections

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These files are extremely annoying. Luckly Apple has a way of preventing their creation on network connections:

  1. In a terminal type: defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
  2. Restart

That’s pretty much it. This began to be a problem for me when I was creating some meta-packages for FEUPlive (via sshfs) and all of them installed in a clean Ubuntu installation those damn .DS_Store. The packages even created conflicts with the files…

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