Desktop Services Store

File Format
Name	Desktop Services Store
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Metadata Desktop Services Store
Extension(s)	.DS_Store
PRONOM	fmt/394

Desktop Services Store (.DS_Store) is a file format used by Mac OS X, and the Finder app, to store information about a directory.

Identification

Files apparently begin with bytes 00 00 00 01, followed by ASCII "Bud1".

Software

• Mac::Finder::DSStore Perl module
• Go library
• Python library

External links

• Wikipedia:.DS_Store
• Specification from Mac::Finder::DSStore
• Parsing the .DS_Store file format
• Reverse-engineered specification
• Explainer: .DS_Store files