OK you Linux genius's, how can I find and delete ALL .AppleDB  .AppleDesktop  .AppleDouble  I believe I figure out how to prevent these from being created on my network shares by running this in terminal "defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true".

 

I would now like to delete all these files, I have the unmenu script installed but I don't think that deletes all of these since they still show up.

 

thanks

 

edit...I found this code but no clue what is does, would this work?  I want to delete all of them from my server

 

find . -name \.AppleDouble -exec rm -rf {} \;

that command should work.

it searches in every subdirectory (starting from the directory you run this command from) for elements named ".AppleDouble" and executes the delete command with the recursive and force flag (so the directory and everything in it is deleted.

 

i just tested it on some unimportant subfolders... it works just fine. it will give some error messages (file not found), but it deletes all .AppleDouble directories

Thanks, so if I want to delete some other files I should just be able to change the "Appledouble" to something else correct?

 

Yup it worked for me, what do these files do anyhow and all they all safe to delete?

The contain Apple Finder metadata. They are safe to delete.

Even the appledb and appledesktop?

Yup. The only files that matter are the ones that you or your applications put there.