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Comment by ashcairo | Hacker News Reader

TinkerTool allows you to disable the creation of those files on network drivers.. It's free too.

TinkerTool.. let's you tink, without leaving a stink? http://bresink.de/osx/0TinkerTool/details.html

There is a built-in option to disable .DS_Store creation on network and removable drives. Run the following in a terminal then log out to restart your session.

  defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

source: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1629

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