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how to make new windows remember?
Authored by: Cobber99 on May 28, '06 03:24:49PM

Indeed - does anyone know how to stop the system from making new directories
with root ownership on the .DS_Store file? It is insanely annoying and any help
here would be much appreciated!



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root-owned .DS_Store files
Authored by: sjk on May 28, '06 04:41:17PM
.DS_Store are created with ownership of the current Finder user. If you're seeing root-owned .DS_Store files they've probably been added by running authenticated installers; that's how they've gotten onto my systems anyway. Or you're running Finder as root? :-)

If you're logged in as a non-root user and new .DS_Store files in folders you create with Finder are owned as root then things get tricker. There's no reason to over-speculate about possible causes without more detailed information about your system/environment. Seems better to start with simple explanations.

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