In 2000, American painter Robert Griffing created a painting titled, Friend or Foe, wherein, two Native American hunters are examining footprints made in the snow.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Super cool, I realized I was thinking of the wargame A Few Acres Of Snow by martin wallace (the designer of the modern classics, Brass Birmingham and Brass Lancashire)

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/79828/a-few-acres-of-snow

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 212 points 1 week ago (10 children)

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.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

You'd want that, but a lot of programs do that, both in Windows and Linux.

e.g. The .directory files with the [Desktop Entry] spec by freedesktop.org
Dolphin has the option to enable/disable the feature

[–] lengau@midwest.social 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

FWIW Dolphin only does it if the filesystem doesn't provide a way to add that metadata directly to the directory and you change the view configuration for that directory away from your standard configuration. Which is how the standard describes to do it. (Some file managers incorrectly add those .directory files to every directory you visit.)

A mac will add a .DS_Store file to any directory just by breathing on it.

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 136 points 1 week ago (1 children)

See also: Let's roll our own .zip implementation that only Mac can reliably read for....reasons

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 77 points 1 week ago (1 children)

every time i get a zip file from a mac user it has a folder with random junk in it. what's up with that? i can open the files without it so clearly those files are unnecessary

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 76 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Metadata that's a holdover from the 1980s MacOS behavior. Hilariously, today, NTFS supports that metadata better than Apple's own filesystems of today. They can hide it in Alternate Data Streams.

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[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 107 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Hmm.. Smells like a windows user aswell.. Look at that:

~~.desktop~~ desktop.ini

Edit: fixed the filename

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 132 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Thumbs.db

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[–] Wolfizen@pawb.social 85 points 1 week ago

System Volume Information

[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

... You mean desktop.ini?

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[–] Hupf@feddit.org 97 points 1 week ago

Thumbs.db

[–] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 80 points 1 week ago (6 children)

you should do this with every one of these cases. btw, where does .Trash-1000 actually come from?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 86 points 1 week ago

Freedesktop.org’s trash specification. It’s where files moved to trash go before being deleted when it’s emptied. The 1000 is the user id.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 1 week ago

.Trash-999 was already taken by a metal band.

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[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago (40 children)

…and whoever decided a file system should be case insensitive by default, I hate you.

[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

NTFS absolutely supports case sensitivity but, presumably for consistency with FAT and FAT32 (Windows is all about backwards compatibility), and for the sake of Average-Joe-User who's only interaction with the filesystem is opening Word and Excel docs, it doesn't by default.

All that said, it can be set on a per-directory basis: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/case-sensitivity

[–] antipiratgruppen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

MacOS uses the APFS file system format nowadays, and used HFS+ before that. FAT and ExFAT formats are supported too. However, the NTFS format needs third party software to work.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What’s a windows?

[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Were you talking about MacOS? It's been a long time since I last had to use it but I assumed it was case sensitive because it's Unix based. Uh maybe ignore me then!

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah. They have both case sensitive and case insensitive options when you format your drive. It used to default to case insensitive. I haven’t formatted my boot drive in a long time, so I can’t say what it defaults to today.

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 63 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

I would also like a word with “bonjour” process while we’re at it.

Thought it was a virus when I first discovered it.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

Isn’t bonjour the reason that devices like printers famously worked so much better on Mac than windows? I feel like I read an article about that like a decade or two ago.

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[–] burgermeister@lemm.ee 62 points 1 week ago

Every fucking folder in the file share has one of these

[–] Natanael@lemmy.zip 60 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I saw somebody with Nintendo .DS_store as a username

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[–] Cargon@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 week ago

Found one of these in the firmware zip file of my soundbar today.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE

Helps a bit.

[–] MissingInteger@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Don't forget:

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteUSBStores -bool true

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 week ago

__MACOSX folders hither and yon.

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