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If it doesn't work,
Initially, this didn't work for me. After reading the original Apple technote, it occurred to me that perhaps the generated plist file wasn't going to the correct place. Though it was in my user's Preferences, it was not in the system preferences. I tried copying the newly created ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktopservices.plist to the main system preferences folder: /Library/Preferences/. Then restarted my computer. Now it works. With the original suggestion, would it be possible that the user needs to be root before generating the defaults command? A Little History Interestingly enough, this is not a new problem. In fact, it may be one of the oldest problems of all the Apple operating systems! Way back in the early days, just after the stone wheel and before sliced-bread, we had portable disks with the enormous storage capacity of 800 KB! As Apple introduced a GUI desktop to the Apple II line, the OS used to leave similar files all over the place. We referred to them as Finder Turds. Because storage was such a tight commodity, these little files were enormously unpopular, and people complained bitterly about them. Indeed, there was quite the movement to wipe them out, just as we are seeing here. You think the newest generation of Apple engineers would have learned from the previous generations.
If it doesn't work,
<blockquote>Initially, this didn't work for me. After reading the original Apple technote, it occurred to me that perhaps the generated plist file wasn't going to the correct place. Though it was in my user's Preferences, it was not in the system preferences.
If it doesn't work,
But I always do get the ._AppleDouble files (ie: image.jpg and ._image.jpg) though and in the case of small images they're more than double the size of the actual image. I've searched around and found no way to turn these off and some controversy about whether they can be safely deleted or not. I'm thinking that for Linux purposes when I don't care about bringing the files back into the Mac it doesn't matter.
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