.DS_Store files created in Repository when connecting via WebDAV from a MAC

Hi Rob,

would something like this work?

https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT1629

http://www.christiano.ch/wordpress/2010/11/27/mac-os-x-prevent-ds_store-file-creation-on-network-volumes/

I don't have a mac to test this on.

I'm not sure if AEM is able to prevent it, if you'd require an AEM solution, this should be checked with the Support team

Mark

Thanks Mark.

This looks promising if the users are willing to make this configuration change.  

I don't have a MAC to test on either...  

Your response is appreciated.

I did also find this thread:  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33129042/how-to-hide-hidden-files-in-aem-crxde-lite

Which suggests using an OSGi scheduler to simply delete them regularly from AEM.

package com.foo.bar; import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.sling.SlingServlet; import org.apache.sling.api.SlingHttpServletRequest; import org.apache.sling.api.SlingHttpServletResponse; import org.apache.sling.api.resource.Resource; import org.apache.sling.api.resource.ResourceResolver; import org.apache.sling.api.servlets.SlingSafeMethodsServlet; import javax.jcr.query.Query; import javax.servlet.ServletException; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.PrintWriter; import java.util.Iterator; import org.slf4j.Logger; import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory; @SlingServlet(paths={"/bin/deletedsstore"}) public class DeleteDSStoreServlet extends SlingSafeMethodsServlet { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DeleteDSStoreServlet.class); private static final String SQL2_QUERY = "SELECT * FROM [nt:base] AS s WHERE ISDESCENDANTNODE([/content]) and NAME() = '.DS_Store'"; private static final int SAVE_THRESHOLD = 100; @Override protected void doGet(SlingHttpServletRequest request, SlingHttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { ResourceResolver resolver = request.getResourceResolver(); Iterator<Resource> resources = resolver.findResources(SQL2_QUERY, Query.JCR_SQL2); int deleted = 0; while (resources.hasNext()) { Resource resource = resources.next(); String path = resource.getPath(); resolver.delete(resource); log.info("Deleted node: " + path); deleted++; if (deleted % SAVE_THRESHOLD == 0) { resolver.commit(); } } if (resolver.hasChanges()) { resolver.commit(); } response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK); PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); out.write("Deleted " + deleted + " .DS_Store nodes"); } }