Spotlight Tip: Getting Rid Of Windows Files

1878 days ago in How do I? by Brent | 4 Comments

I was using my spotlight search this morning looking for a file that started with the word “thumb” and to my dismay, I was presented with a huge list of remainder Windows files all over my Mac. This was easily remedied, however, with a simple altered search but it brought up a good point. Have you ever wanted to get rid of a bunch of unnecessary Windows files on your Mac? With spotlight, it’s a cinch! Here’s what you do:

Let’s start with “thumbs.db”. Do a spotlight search for thumbs.db and click “show all” (right under the spotlight text entry area. You will get a window something like this:

Now all you have to do is select them all and drop them in the trash! Easy huh? Now if you have any others (like desktop.ini) that you want to kill, you can do the same thing for those. Just a simple little tip in case you handn’t thought of it yet.