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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) OSX/Unix problem Post 38936 by der Kopf on Thursday 31st of July 2003 04:34:59 AM
Old 07-31-2003
I consider these files to be, indeed, kinds of preference files. AFAIK, they store all information related to the presentation of a certain folder to the user (and, if you've used OSX for any lenght of time, you'll know they do a bad job at it).
You can delete ANY .DS_Store file without worry. The only thing that'll happen is that the view/presentation of the folder that contained it will be reset to default.
There are even applications that will delete all .DS_Store files in a certain directory(tree) for you. I'm thinking of Cocktail and De_DDS. These come in handy if you are creating a CDRom for another platform, or if you are sharing a certain folder with other platforms, over a network.
It is indeed so that if you delete a .DS_Store, a new one will be created as soon as you open up that folder again.
I don't know what's in the apple.com... file though, though it will most logically be a reference to your desktop picture and its change regimen.
 

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RMF(1)								     [nmh-1.5]								    RMF(1)

NAME

       rmf - remove an nmh folder

SYNOPSIS

       rmf [+folder] [-interactive | -nointeractive] [-version] [-help]

DESCRIPTION

       Rmf removes all of the messages (files) within the specified (or default) folder, and then removes the folder (directory) itself.

       If  there  are  any  files  within the folder which are not a part of nmh, they will not be removed, and an error will be produced.  If the
       folder is given explicitly or the -nointeractive option is given, then the folder will be removed  without  confirmation.   Otherwise,  the
       user  will be asked for confirmation.  If rmf can't find the current folder, for some reason, the folder to be removed defaults to `+inbox'
       (unless overridden by user's profile entry "Inbox") with confirmation.

       If the folder being removed is a subfolder, the parent folder will become the new current folder, and rmf will produce  a  message  telling
       the user this has happened.  This provides an easy mechanism for selecting a set of messages, operating on the list, then removing the list
       and returning to the current folder from which the list was extracted.

       If rmf s used on a read-only folder, it will delete all the (private) sequences (i.e., "atr-seq-folder" entries) for this folder from  your
       context without affecting the folder itself.

       Rmf irreversibly deletes messages that don't have other links, so use it with caution.

FILES

       $HOME/.mh_profile	  The user profile

PROFILE COMPONENTS

       Path:		    To determine the user's nmh directory
       Current-Folder:	    To find the default current folder
       Inbox:		    To find the default inbox

SEE ALSO

       rmm(1)

DEFAULTS

       `+folder' defaults to the current folder, usually with confirmation
       `-interactive' if +folder' not given, `-nointeractive' otherwise

CONTEXT

       Rmf  will  set the current folder to the parent folder if a subfolder is removed; or if the current folder is removed, it will make "inbox"
       current.  Otherwise, it doesn't change the current folder or message.

BUGS

       Although intuitively one would suspect that rmf works recursively, it does not.	Hence if you have a sub-folder within a folder,  in  order
       to rmf the parent, you must first rmf each of the children.

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