honestly - while a Mac is certainly less painful to use than winshit, putting rubbish files recursively into each(!!) accessed folder, on all thumbdrives ever inserted, that's something Jobs deserves to burn in hell for.
You'd want that, but a lot of programs do that, both in Windows and Linux.
e.g. The .directory files with the [Desktop Entry] spec by freedesktop.org
Dolphin has the option to enable/disable the feature
FWIW Dolphin only does it if the filesystem doesn't provide a way to add that metadata directly to the directory and you change the view configuration for that directory away from your standard configuration. Which is how the standard describes to do it. (Some file managers incorrectly add those .directory files to every directory you visit.)
A mac will add a .DS_Store file to any directory just by breathing on it.
today I learned - using Linux at home since 2005ish and I have never had an auto-file generated on any USB attached drives of mine...
I am not familiar with MacOS, but that seems like a nightmare. What is the purpose of these files?
the macos file browser, Finder, lets you set a background for a folder, move file icons around to arbitrary positions, other shenanigans. in order for this to work across systems on removable storage media and network mounts, they have this.
See also: Let's roll our own .zip implementation that only Mac can reliably read for....reasons
every time i get a zip file from a mac user it has a folder with random junk in it. what's up with that? i can open the files without it so clearly those files are unnecessary
Metadata that's a holdover from the 1980s MacOS behavior. Hilariously, today, NTFS supports that metadata better than Apple's own filesystems of today. They can hide it in Alternate Data Streams.
Hmm.. Smells like a windows user aswell.. Look at that:
~~.desktop~~ desktop.ini
Edit: fixed the filename
System Volume Information
... You mean desktop.ini?
Ah shit I've forgotten the ancient tablets, ill fix that thank you!
I've caught the whiff of some Linux too...
lost+found
Thumbs.db…and whoever decided a file system should be case insensitive by default, I hate you.
The moment when you try to rename a folder in windows from Hello to hello and it doesn't work.
you should do this with every one of these cases. btw, where does .Trash-1000 actually come from?
Freedesktop.org’s trash specification. It’s where files moved to trash go before being deleted when it’s emptied. The 1000 is the user id.
.Trash-999 was already taken by a metal band.
I had a long and frustrating conflict with this, on this post.
As @d_k_bo@feddit.org (An dem Punkt könnten wir auch einfach Deutsch labern) noted, it's a freedesktop.org specification.
I still stand the point that it's not very thought through (a hidden dir? Why?), and that blindly implementing it is annoying. It shouldn't be a universal standard for all systems, as it's only relevant if you use a file manager which can then use that dir as Trash dir - which I don't. That could be tested by only allowing filemanagers to create the dir, and if it doesn't exist, discard the data. That's probably how some programs work, as only Prismlauncher has created the dir.
Workaround: ln -s .Trash-1000 /dev/null
I would also like a word with “bonjour” process while we’re at it.
Thought it was a virus when I first discovered it.
no one? Ok
Would you have felt differently if it was called Rendezvous?
Probably not. I know better then to trust the french /s
Idk what all it does and doesn't do, but installing it in Windows lets you find your Raspberry Pi by its ".local" hostname. I know it was originally for printers or something.
It's for local service discovery. Those services may be printers on your network, or another computer sharing music on iTunes (which is why as a Windows user you'd usually get Bonjour when installing iTunes). Or maybe it's your Raspberry Pi.
It feels iffy because it comes bundled with other software without you being asked (IIRC) and it autoruns on startup. And I mean 20 years ago when iPods were a thing and people had to use iTunes on Windows, a couple dozen megabytes of RAM really mattered too. Hell I had 512 MB back when I had an iPod (and therefore iTunes)
Every fucking folder in the file share has one of these
Found one of these in the firmware zip file of my soundbar today.
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE
Helps a bit.
Linux user has been here.
How can you tell?
*sniff* Still smells like smug.
*sniff* Still smells like smug.
.Trash-1000
Just gitignore that. Same for dot idea and whatever vscode adds, if anything
Ya, but that .idea is not inserted in eleven thousand sub folders.
It's not, but I still prefer not pushing my config on others, or others pushing theirs on me.
As much as they love to sue people, I don't understand why Nintendo doesn't go after Apple for trademark infringement, so that they're forced to finally come up with a better method of storing folder attributes.
I am not exactly a programmer. What is the .DS_Store file for?
Kind of a mac's version of desktop.ini. Remembers layouts and other metadata about a folder.
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