honestly - while a Mac is certainly less painful to use than winshit, putting rubbish files recursively into each(!!) accessed folder, on all thumbdrives ever inserted, that's something Jobs deserves to burn in hell for.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 months ago (8 children)

I am not familiar with MacOS, but that seems like a nightmare. What is the purpose of these files?

[–] vvv@programming.dev 57 points 5 months ago (1 children)

the macos file browser, Finder, lets you set a background for a folder, move file icons around to arbitrary positions, other shenanigans. in order for this to work across systems on removable storage media and network mounts, they have this.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why not make the file when a change is made like with windows desktop.ini files?

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

I don't think the code is available for people to figure out whether there's a reason or if it's completely arbitrary.

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