iDumpHiddenFilesForNoGoodReason
As much as I hate bashing Macs as the next person, last night’s infuriating two-hour file-transfer from memory stick to memory stick really reaches in and punctures another hole in my already-disintegrating neutrality to the OS.
What started out as a simple 15-minute game (ahem) exchange turned into an entire night of why is this not working?! and wait, the icon disappeared again and oh it works it works… no, it doesn’t. Finding myself suddenly performing all sorts of tech-religious rites like proper drive-ejection, praying and chanting over the card reader, blowing on the memory card before sticking it in and wiggling it around (a la Nintendo days of yore), it was a hair-tugging two hours later that I finally gave up.
The culprit, I found, as soon as I used my *cough cough* Dell PC at work this morning, turned out to be a whole myriad of hidden Mac files that unceremoniously dumped themselves on the cards over the course of the night. That’s why the cards kept registering decreasing memory capacities as the night went on. It even kept a little hidden recycling bin on the already-miniscule 1 gig space of stuff I had deleted. HEY. I said “delete”. It’s also a term for “get off my card”.
“DS_Store”? “501″ folders? What? WHY ARE YOU ON MY CARDS?
Now everything’s okay, after a quick clean with my very barebones and un-pretentious Windows File Explorer. Look, I didn’t say PCs were infallible or even really all that great, but at least I got to play my games with a simple drag-and-drop.
I predict Adri will post some solution / pro-Mac propagandhi *buh dum chh* but she and all you other Macheads will never return my two hours to me… Neverrrr… Aaagh.
MUAHAHHAHAH!!! You must first join the MAC cult before they will work for ya! =P…HA
Ahoy! Do I see a pirate? ARrrrrrr… =C)
Even as a self professed Machead, I hate DS_store files too.
http://www.koozie.org/2004/12/what_are_ds_sto.html
Now if you were playing them on a Mac, you wouldn’t see them at all. :)
oh and.. your two hours wasted, you gotta blame on Sony’s proprietary slow-as-hell MS! :P poor girl. couldn’t you have gone memory stick-computer-memory stick?
oh… that’s what i meant. i transferred from one memory stick to the Mac, then from the Mac back to another memory stick, and all these things started getting dumped on the new one. hmm. there must be some way around this… there’s got to be. (there’s got to be at least some PSP users using Macs, right?)
I use this utility called TinkerTool on my mac.
http://www.bresink.de/osx/DocsTinkerToolSys/
part of its clean up job can be to remove DS_store files. There are also more specialized apps doing nothing else but clean up DS_Store, over at Macupdate.com.
it’s like there was a nerd explosion on this page
*KABOOM*
w00t
ok just to let you know i dohn’t know WHEN it’s appropriate to use w00t. so i’ll just use it whenever.
adri> the fact that there are specialised apps doing nothing but removing fundamental irritations of the Mac Finder app… *ahem* how could i resist?
jody> w00t w00t! you know, i think it’s usable most of the time you want to express joy/triumph/superiority. which would mark most of your exchanges with me. hahaha. w00t.
use the command line to copy your files next time
mached> thanks, but that’s like going around the left of your head and touching your nose with your right hand, isn’t it?