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DS_Store is stored alongside the files, which means it's portable with them, e.g. when you put files on a USB stick and then plug it into a machine running an e
by cjbprime 6y ago
DS_Store is stored alongside the files, which means it's portable with them, e.g. when you put files on a USB stick and then plug it into a machine running an earlier version of macOS 10.
None of your solutions preserve that backwards compatibility -- the database wouldn't because it presumably stays on your machine, and going back to resource forks wouldn't because the earlier OS releases wouldn't know about the existence of them.
- dannyw 6y agoWe have iCloud now and ETE encryption. The proportion of people plugging USB devices into machines they don't own is probably pretty minimal.
- lovelyviking 6y agoStill if you have pre calculated sizes of the folders, does it really matter what media was used to transfer data? Also I think people realising more and more that it'ss not very rational to trust to anyCloud with personal data. My rule is simply never use any cloud.