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Thats the nature of including Apple in your multiplatform setup.

I tried some of them and was not satisfied at all as sometimes they do less, other times they do more than needed.

It may still include.fsevents,.DocumentRevisions,.TemporaryItems and.Trashes.

I kind of think it may be unavoidable to create certain file system structures when introducing a volume.

The Spotlight stuff and the.dsstores you can take care of though.

Prevent MDS from attempting to Index sudo touch Volumesyour volume name here.metadataneverindex Disable Indexing AND Searching of Volumes sudo mdutil -i off -d Volumesyour volume name here Delete existing Spotlight Index sudo rm -rfv.Spotlight-V100 Disable creating.dsstore on USB volumes defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteUSBStores -bool true Disable creating.dsstore on network volumes defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool true Sorry if this makes your machine explode, implode, hack NORAD, Friends you with Justin Bieber or any other unexpected results.

The example uses Windows, but Linuxll probably do in a pinch.

If your drive name is dauber then type in: sudo mdutil -i off -d Volumesdauber If i your drive name is Dauber then type in: sudo mdutil -i off -d VolumesDauber If i your drive name has a space in it like Macintosh HD then type in: sudo mdutil -i off -d VolumesMacintosh HD.

That probably has something to do with it.betcha Sierra doesnt support that format.: (FTR, the device Im using is a pretty obscure thing.its a rewritable cartridge for.ya ready.Atari 7800:.

OneDrive does not appear to be a Volume on OS X MacOS but rather a folder inside wherever you have saved it to.

How would I prevent.dsstore files from polluting OneDrive Much appreciated.

The TV kept picking up the bogus files and complaining that they were corrupt and could not be displayed.

I was a bit gobsmacked when I discovered that my Mac is creating these files simply by copying images from MacOS to a thumb drive.

Would love to understand the rationale behind this happening, is it related to spotlight indexing.

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