I found a file with .DS_Store extension in one of my drives. How did it get there?
My Operating System is Windows 7 64-bit and to the best of my knowledge I never accessed an Apple computer nor was accessed by one.
51 Answer
That file is a proprietary Mac/OSX system file that holds attributes/meta-data about the folder it resides in.
These often appear in file shares that are accessed over the network by a Mac user; but that's not the only way you can get them. You may have gotten it in an archive (ie: a Zip file perhaps) you picked up someplace, which was originally created on a Mac.
I run into these all the time in archives we get from our graphic designers.
You're safe to just delete it.
For additional information on preventing them, perhaps check out these SU questions and answers (and others like them):
- How to prevent Mac OS X creating .DS_Store files on non Mac (HFS) Volumes?
- Any programs for getting rid of .DS_Store files?
