Stop Mac OS's Finder to write .DS_Store files on Network drives

Posted on October 20, 2020
Tags: mac

The Finder file explorer on Mac OS writes .DSStore file in every directory you open with it. This is quite annoying on network shares.

This behavior can be diabled by executing the following command in the terminal:

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE

Obviously, to re-enable use:

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool FALSE

src: https://www.techjunkie.com/stop-ds-store-files-mac-network/