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Is it? Couldn't the previews be stored on the same volume as the original? Windows stores "thumbs.db" in the same directory as the original image.

by Osiris 8y ago

bumblebritches5 8y ago
Great idea, spam the shit out of every folder with useless files even more. that's just what we need.
niftich 8y ago
That's in Windows XP. In later versions, Explorer stores all thumbnails in %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer, which can very well be on a different volume than the original file.
gruez 8y ago
and that's how you end up with annoying shit like __MACOSX and ._caches folders everywhere
- cptskippy 8y ago
  You don't like sacrificing 1% of your SD Card space to Finder?
  - ubercow13 8y ago
    Why would you want your OS to start writing to the SD card just because you browsed around it in Finder?
  - mort96 8y ago
    It's not that the files take up space, it's that they're there. Have a look of how many repositories on GitHub which include a completely unrelated .DS_Store file: https://github.com/search?q=filename%3A.DS_Store https://github.com/search?q=filename%3A.DS_Store
    - cptskippy 8y ago
      I'm annoyed equally by the space they take up and their presence. We pulled an old camera out to donate the other day and I popped the SD card in my laptop to see what might be on the card. It was a 1GB card "full" of photos my kid took on one of our vacations. I say "full" because there was a 125mbs of files Finder left wasting space on it. That's easily 25 photos that weren't taken. What shots did we miss because the SD card was "full"?
      - mort96 8y ago
        Wow, that's 12.5% of the card, not 1%. I had no idea Finder's files would get that large.
        chungy 8y ago
        A 1GB SD card is likely to be formatted with FAT16. Even a "one byte" file must take up 32KB in the file system because that's just how big the clusters will be.
pavon 8y ago
I won't speak for the file managers in particular, but on linux it is common practice for cached data to be stored in dot files like ~/.cache/ even if the original data is on a different encrypted mount. It is a pretty deeply engrained practice that can easily leak secrets if you aren't careful. Another example of how security is hard to bolt on after the fact. One example I've seen was that if you filled out a form in Okular, it would store the form data in a dot file in your home directory rather than in the original PDF or a file adjacent to the PDF. Not sure if that was ever fixed.
ubercow13 8y ago
No thanks, if the volume is a network drive, I want the cache on fast local storage
21 8y ago
And what about log files? Are you ok with leaking what operations you did to the encrypted volume?

Is it? Couldn't the previews be stored on the same volume as the original? Windows stores "thumbs.db" in the same directory as the original image.

by Osiris 8y ago

Is it? Couldn't the previews be stored on the same volume as the original? Windows stores "thumbs.db" in the same directory as the original image.

bumblebritches5 8y ago

Great idea, spam the shit out of every folder with useless files even more. that's just what we need.

niftich 8y ago

That's in Windows XP. In later versions, Explorer stores all thumbnails in %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer, which can very well be on a different volume than the original file.

gruez 8y ago

and that's how you end up with annoying shit like __MACOSX and ._caches folders everywhere

cptskippy 8y ago
You don't like sacrificing 1% of your SD Card space to Finder?
- ubercow13 8y ago
  Why would you want your OS to start writing to the SD card just because you browsed around it in Finder?
- mort96 8y ago
  It's not that the files take up space, it's that they're there. Have a look of how many repositories on GitHub which include a completely unrelated .DS_Store file: https://github.com/search?q=filename%3A.DS_Store https://github.com/search?q=filename%3A.DS_Store
  - cptskippy 8y ago
    I'm annoyed equally by the space they take up and their presence. We pulled an old camera out to donate the other day and I popped the SD card in my laptop to see what might be on the card. It was a 1GB card "full" of photos my kid took on one of our vacations. I say "full" because there was a 125mbs of files Finder left wasting space on it. That's easily 25 photos that weren't taken. What shots did we miss because the SD card was "full"?
    - mort96 8y ago
      Wow, that's 12.5% of the card, not 1%. I had no idea Finder's files would get that large.
      - chungy 8y ago
        A 1GB SD card is likely to be formatted with FAT16. Even a "one byte" file must take up 32KB in the file system because that's just how big the clusters will be.

pavon 8y ago

I won't speak for the file managers in particular, but on linux it is common practice for cached data to be stored in dot files like ~/.cache/ even if the original data is on a different encrypted mount. It is a pretty deeply engrained practice that can easily leak secrets if you aren't careful. Another example of how security is hard to bolt on after the fact. One example I've seen was that if you filled out a form in Okular, it would store the form data in a dot file in your home directory rather than in the original PDF or a file adjacent to the PDF. Not sure if that was ever fixed.

ubercow13 8y ago

No thanks, if the volume is a network drive, I want the cache on fast local storage

21 8y ago

And what about log files? Are you ok with leaking what operations you did to the encrypted volume?