After a long pause I have a new blog post about the annoying   files which are generated by the built in Finder application in Mac OS X. First of all we need to close all Finder windows and then we execute the following commands inside a terminal: This command disables the creation of the   files on the following network drive types: SMB/CIFS, AFP, NFS, and WebDAV. Next we need to install Asepsis. This tool redirects the creation of the   files to another folder such that the built in Finder is still able to save its meta data, and we do not have the   files in each folder anymore. To install this application just download it from here and then execute the installer and then you need to restart the machine. The next step is for the people which do not need the specific folder views for each folder etc. from the built in Finder, because with the following command we remove all the   files from the hard drive. After you have executed the command, the built in Finder has the default view on all folders. After this step you will never find any   file again in any of your folders. I hope you find this post useful as it is a complete guide on how to "disable" the   files. Cheers, Guy PS: For the ones asking themselves why I now write about Mac OS X topics: I recently needed to switch to Mac because there are some applications which we use at our company which just didn't work...