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All file operations have been watched by Spotlight since forever at this point.
by earthboundkid 2y ago
All file operations have been watched by Spotlight since forever at this point.
- threeseed 2y agoExcept for ignored file types and folders you marked as private.
- vetinari 2y agoOr those on network volumes or removable media. When somebody else on other machine removes them, your local database is out of sync pronto.
- earthboundkid 2y agoThis also happens with .DS_store files if the other computer on the network isn’t a Mac. It’s irrelevant.
- tekknik 2y agocomputers other than a mac don’t need DS_Store anyways, so still relevant.
- earthboundkid 2y agoNo, the objection to not keeping .DS_Store per folder and doing it per file system instead was that a non-Mac might make changes that would not be seen. The point is that this can already happen for a lot of different reasons! So keeping it per folder doesn't eliminate the failure mode, it just makes it slightly less common… at the cost of annoying all non-Mac users and any Mac user who needs to interact with Git etc. The tradeoff analysis for doing it per folder is bad.