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These temporary files are terrible! I don't know which major Windows version started with the ".thumb" and "desktop.ini" files, but if I tell my OS to navigate
by klingonopera 7y ago
These temporary files are terrible! I don't know which major Windows version started with the ".thumb" and "desktop.ini" files, but if I tell my OS to navigate and display me contents of a folder, please don't change anything in that folder! You should be assuming "read-only" as often as possible, and only assume anything else when explicitly stated to do so.
But instead, they create thumbnails. In the very same source folder. Shouldn't this stuff go on some cache in your windows directory?
- mrguyorama 7y agoThe wikipedia links to a similar article on the windows thumbnail cache, where it claims from Vista onward that Windows has a central cache location for thumbnail caches.
- klingonopera 7y agoAh yes, that explains why "thumbs.db" is no longer a thing and was mostly remnants left over from the XP days...
- garaetjjte 7y agoAnother thing is that 'System Volume Information' created on removable drives. And Android too creates its directory structure on every mounted drive..