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It just used different words. "Sometimes they’re confused with another annoying but more useful hidden file: shadow files whose names start with ._ which are us
by pseudalopex 5y ago
It just used different words. "Sometimes they’re confused with another annoying but more useful hidden file: shadow files whose names start with ._ which are used to carry extended attribute data as part of the AppleDouble file format used on some FAT file systems."
- omnicognate 5y agoYep, .DS_Store files have nothing to do with resource forks. Resource forks are a filesystem feature (well forks are a filesystem feature and resource forks are an application of that feature). AppleDouble is a way of storing the information that would be in resource forks on filesystems that don't provide forks or similar functionality.
- ghostly_s 5y agoThey have everything to do with resource forks. The metadata in DS_Store is stuff that was originally stored in the resource fork on earlier MacOSii; the file's existence is a cludge created to deal with the lack of resource forks when the decision was made to design OS X with POSIX-compatibility.
- pseudalopex 5y agoNo.[1][2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.DS_Store https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.DS_Store [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleSingle_and_AppleDouble_formats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleSingle_and_AppleDouble_fo...