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I will raise you- desktop.ini and thumbnails.db

• tredre3 2y ago
  Windows is polite enough to not write them on network shares, unlike .DS_Store.
  • lazide 2y ago
    Now, yes. It used to be a really irritating problem there too.
• wasabinator 2y ago
  That's still a weaker hand. macOS also has the ton of ._ files. Would have been better to have folded than raised
  • pasc1878 2y ago
    No macOS does not. The issue is the file system. Apple file systems allow a file to have extended attributes or resource forks. Thus a file is not a simple stream of bytes. When you copy a file to a file system (e.g. FAT) that does not understand these attributes macOS copies those to a ._ (I think if the file system was NTFS then you could probably convert them but I don't think anyone does) Copying a file out of an Apple environment loses data (OK the data is metadata and usually no one cares)
• pxoe 2y ago
  back in windows xp days yes, it's pretty much never a problem nowadays. for the past...almost two decades, actually - thumbnails get stored in user profile folder since vista. (though it is different for network folders and may still be a problem.) and desktop.ini files - you'd only ever encounter them in predefined system folders (like pictures, etc.) or if you manually customize a folder in its properties - customize tab (like changing folder "type" to one like those predefined folders or changing its icon, not the same as changing size/thumbnail size/columns/etc though, that's stored elsewhere too)