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You don't like sacrificing 1% of your SD Card space to Finder?

by cptskippy 8y ago

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.