On 18/02/2011, at 3:12 PM, John Daniels wrote: > > Hi all > Thankyou to Ronni for all that info. It certainly has speeded up my Mac. > > I have one icon on the desktop named .DS-store and I cannot get rid of it. If > I put it in Trash it comes back and it refuses to go anywhere and tells me it > is invisible. > > Has anyone an answer I can use without going into Terminal about which I know > zilch? > Cheers > John
Hi John, It is an invisible file that is created by the finder, sort of like the thumbs.db on windows. For some reason it seems you have invisible files being shown on your computer. Do you have TinkerTool installed? If so you can use it to “Hide Invisibles”. Another option is to download a program like TinkerTool and use the options in there (there's a checkbox in the "Finder" pane) to set things appropriately. If not you need to go into Terminal. Don’t panic if you know ‘zilch’ about Terminal. I’ll give you a command you just need to 'copy & paste’ into Terminal. To hide them open up Terminal in Utilities: 1. Go to Applications > Utilities > Terminal 2. Copy and then Paste the following command defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles OFF 3. Press Enter Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
