.DS_Store, .Trashes etc

If you've ever worked on a drive that's shared between a system running OS X and a system running some other OS, you've encountered the numerous metadata files that OS X likes to litter all drives with. There are lots of them:

.DS_Store
.Trashes
.TemporaryItems
.Spotlight-V100
._.Trashes

I'm sure there are more of them. This is just what I found on one of my USB sticks.

Apple needs to figure out a better way of storing this data. At the very least they could put them all in a directory so that we only end up with one entry in the root of the drive.

Comments

ThreeX

10 months ago

I have heard there is a store somewhere in Sweden named DS Store :)
*Quite irrelevant, but a fun fact*

ThreeX

10 months ago

Just to clarify last post: Of course it is a Apple store : )

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