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You forgot the lovely thing that is .DS_Store, which ends up everywhere your machine visits on the network. No worse than Windows spewing thumbs.db files all o
by reaperducer 3y ago
You forgot the lovely thing that is .DS_Store, which ends up everywhere your machine visits on the network.
No worse than Windows spewing thumbs.db files all over the place. Or any of the thousands of different dot files that end up in Linux volumes.
- coconut08 3y agoi must have missed the part of nautilus or dolphin where they put a dot file in every directory you navigate to.
- crtasm 3y agoDoes Windows still make that file? I built a new PC a few years ago and don't recall disabling it (Win10).
- JoBrad 3y agoI think it’s only present if Explorer needs to store a preview for a folder or file.
- noisem4ker 3y agoThey're gone since Vista (2007), I think. Widows now stores thumbnails in the user profile folder. But the stigma lives on.
- akdev1l 3y agodotfiles live in your home directory almost exclusively. Literally there’s no tooling I know of that will drop random hidden files. The ext4 filesystem does have a special hidden directory for data partially recovered/corrupted
- justinclift 3y agoOn that note, ZFS has a hidden ".zfs" directory for accessing filesystem snapshots. That works with ZFS shared over the network (samba, etc) too, which can be useful. :)
- talldayo 3y agoI quite literally do not know a single filesystem that creates dotfiles outside of the volume root directory, besides APFS. It is both worse and unique relative to modern operating systems.