It’s not possible to completely get rid of .DS_Store on your Mac’s desktop if you still want to be able to view hidden files in the Finder, but here’s a way to make .DS_Store a little less annoying.
First, right-click in the middle of the square below. A menu will appear. Then, choose ‘Copy Image’. (This will copy a transparent PNG file to your clipboard.)
This tutorial was adapted from superuser.com.
Sweet! Thank you! This has been bothering ever since enabling hidden files. Wish I could hide it entirely just on the Desktop, but this works!
Thanks for this. 🙂 After making the icon transparent, you can drag it to the bottom of your screen so that the text is just off screen too!
Between Scott and you, my OCD is finally satisfied. Bless you both!!
thank you for making this so easy. it’s been bugging me forever.
oh and the instructions didn’t work exactly, but I just clicked on the icon itself in the preferences menu and pasted over that.
Get rid of the label as well by changing “Name & Extension” to a single space
Unfortunately, this will just cause OS X to create another .DS_Store, since it requires a file by that name.
Brilliant
the .DS_Store icon will just reappear if you do this :/
Thanks for the tip! Fortunately there’s a way of “completely hiding” the file from the desktop. Once you set the icon as a transparent img just drag the file to the edge of the desktop – this will hide the “DS_Store” text to the side…
I got one even better! I don’t know about other OS, but in Yosemite, you can choose the label position (between bottom and right). After using this invisible icon, choose right side label, and drag icon to right edge somewhere. VOILA! Invisible. (^_^)
Very useful thank you very much for your help!
Worked great. Thanks.
This is clever. Ain’t the solution, but who the hell are we who want to see hidden files in the GUI?! 🙂
That’s simply not true – if you want to completely hide the hidden files from your Desktop or file system (such as .DS_Store), fire up your terminal, and type the following:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO; killall Finder /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app
Sorry for the post a few years later, but this is one of the first websites that appears upon searching “how to get rid of ds_store mac”.
I just wanted to tell anyone who wanted to make their ds_store entirely invisible that they could paste this blank space in between these quotation marks: “ ” onto the name to change it. thus, after making the image transparent, the name is transparent.
Dragging it to the bottom right completely hid it for me 🙂 On a mac desktop.
Haha, very funny. This image is in fact NOT just a transparent block, but there is a subtle image that shows up on a dark background.
Big thanks from me too!
Tom
I got one much better. Right click on the file, go down to ¨Service” & click on ¨Erase with CleanMyMac¨. Once you are in the cleaning app, one click to erase the file and you will never see it again, goodbye..
Dude- you are a rockstar- it has been bugging me what feels like a life time