Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your DS_STORE file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert DS_STORE to another file type
To convert DS_STORE metadata files to another format, you need macOS Finder or other System software.
Convert a file to DS_STORE
To convert other file formats to the "macOS Metadata File" file type, you need software like macOS Finder or a similar tool.
About DS_STORE files
The .DS_STORE file is a hidden metadata file generated by the macOS Finder. Its primary purpose is to store custom attributes of a folder, such as icon positions, window sizes, and background images. While useful on Apple devices, this file becomes highly problematic in cross-platform environments. When transferred to a Windows or Linux machine, or compressed into a ZIP archive, .DS_STORE files appear as annoying, useless clutter. They are notorious for polluting version control systems like Git, requiring developers to manually exclude them. Because it is a proprietary binary format, it is not supported by web browsers or standard text editors. Users typically do not want to convert this file into a standard document format; instead, they want to inspect its contents to ensure no sensitive data is leaked, or simply delete it safely. Standard online converters fail to process .DS_STORE files because only the original Apple software can properly parse the proprietary binary structure. Even though this is a closed system file, our tool can inspect the internal content and show text data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion to a readable text format may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your DS_STORE file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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FAQ
If you want to convert DS_STORE file to PDF, INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV or PROPERTIES, you can use macOS Finder or similar software from the "Folder View Settings Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to DS_STORE, try macOS Finder or another comparable tool in the "Folder View Settings Storage" category.
The DS_STORE Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our DS_STORE converter.