monami wrote:
it's also used as the term for the platform...
Indeed. Except AFAIK only Mac OS X exhibits this behaviour, therefore it doesn't apply to the platform.
LoadWB wrote:
Easy, Tiger.
So it's like a .info file, essentially.
:-) Tiger... hehehe. Good one! I was actually writing it in a very non-chalant way, but I do get ticked off with the exhibited misinformation about Mac OS in general.
As for the 'like .info', it's not so. Because the .info contains file metadata. The .DS_Store (which like the .Trash is safe to delete any time you want, as long as you realize what you're deleting), basically saves or contains the settings for the views. For example, if I select icon view (so that I see the thumbnails of a directory), and then enlarge those icons to 128x128 pixels, that setting will take effect every time you open said folder, as long as .DS_Store exists in there. If you delete it, then the default Finder setting takes effect, which is icon view but I think closer to 48x48 pixels for each icon.
PS. Sorry for high-jacking what seems a completed thread, but ignorance is not bliss, it's mental poverty, and facts are facts, and knowledge is information and information is mental power.
