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[–] [email protected] 212 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

I am not familiar with MacOS, but that seems like a nightmare. What is the purpose of these files?

[–] vvv 56 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why not make the file when a change is made like with windows desktop.ini files?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think the code is available for people to figure out whether there's a reason or if it's completely arbitrary.

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