See also: Let’s roll our own .zip implementation that only Mac can reliably read for…reasons
__MACOSX folders hither and yon.
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
.directoryfiles with the[]spec by freedesktop.org
Dolphin has the option to enable/disable the featuretoday 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 have manually made
.directoryfiles (using a bash script) to set icons on folders.It feels good when programs let you know what they intend on doing.
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.
I saw somebody with Nintendo .DS_store as a username
Thumbs.dbI would also like a word with “bonjour” process while we’re at it.
Thought it was a virus when I first discovered it.
Where did this art come from? It seems like the cover to a tabletop wargame about the french and indian war or something.
https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/white-man-has-been-here
In 2000, American painter Robert Griffing created a painting titled, Friend or Foe, wherein, two Native American hunters are examining footprints made in the snow.
Hmm… Smells like a windows user aswell… Look at that:
.desktopdesktop.iniEdit: fixed the filename
I’ve caught the whiff of some Linux too…
lost+found
Thumbs.db
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.
