I’ve written about .DS_Store files before (e.g. https://krypted.com/mac-os-x/no-more-ds_store-files/ to remove the files on file shares ). The .DS_Store is a ***file*** that has some custom attributes of the folder it’s in, such as a background image for the folder (e.g. in disk images with installers that get expanded and then show you a little arrow to copy the folder to the hard drive /Applications is a common use), spotlight comments, and then the .DS_Store also contains icon positions. This all goes back to Finder apps interpreting objects in a foreign file system kind of world. Turns out that that a number of vendors have built exceptions for .DS_Store files because…