Cleaning up my digital collection hits my happy buttons:
* Sense of completion from seeing the 'list of stuff I still need to get to' shrink
* Metadata, yo
* Trips down memory lane
* Excited about all the stuff I forgot about that I want to listen to again
* Dealing with filenames that have to be quoted on the command line
* Deleting turds left around by macOS
* Fighting with filesystems that have different allowed character sets in filenames
@ricci
I see those files put up by Mac OS for no real specific reason other than just identifying something and putting it in a random manner
I see them when I have to work on media by users who work on Macintosh systems
On the Amiga computers we had info files which had everything neatly captured
Just did some homework on .DS_Store files and saw that they are also crapped on foreign filesystems, when a mac accessed those. That is seriously wrong
Luckily that seems to be reversed
@pomCountyIrregs .DS_Store includes metadata about folders (including any comments, and any changes from the default folder sorting/icon movement) from Desktop Services.
It’s not a cached listing of files. It was added as the UFS, NFS didn’t support HFS+ folder metadata and people get annoyed when their folder-specific comments/settings don’t get saved.
Rob Ricci
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