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They 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
by ghostly_s 5y ago
They 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...