> This is the type of low hanging fruit that Apple evidently doesn't care about anymore This is an unfair comment, showing you don't know _why_ those files exi

> This is the type of low hanging fruit that Apple evidently doesn't care about anymore This is an unfair comment, showing you don't know _why_ those files exist. They're an ugly tradeoff, but they serve a purpose. Dot files and .DS_Store files are meant to replicate the movement of metadata that Classic Mac OS achieved with creator codes and whatnot, as well as the layout settings for the folder. Those files need to be in the same directory as the files/folder because Finder knows to copy those files as well. Finder saves the layout options and settings for each individual folder, harkening back to the spatial Finder of Classic Mac OS. It's an integral feature of the system enabled by default. It would be an absolutely terrible idea for Apple to put the preferences for every single folder to which the user has navigated in one preference file, especially given that it would need to be updated whenever files/folders undergo any CRUD operation. > but would go really far towards improving user sanity 99.9% of the time, users don't notice this at all. Those files are currently everywhere on a macOS system, but nobody sees them. The only time they really come up is when you're using ``ls -A`` or copying files to Windows; apart from then, they're truly invisible. What Apple should do is provide an option to not copy the dotfiles and .DS_Store files to USB sticks, especially if they're FAT32 or ExFAT format. That's a better solution than one huge preference file of shame.