Depending on how you interact with your computer, and when you started being a Mac user, I’m not surprised.
Starting at macOS 10.12 16A238m, Finder will not display .DS_Store files (even if you ran defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES in Terminal to show hidden system files).
Apple treats it’s users like children, i would feel so not respected.
Yeah you bought the machine but don’t worry your pretty little head with these confusing files
I’m such a Mac user that I don’t even get it. I am simultaneously laughing at myself and embarrassed.
MacOS create these directories to store metadata. But because it starts with a dot, you don’t normally see it.
macOS only does this on network shares or external storage that’s formatted in neither HFS+ nor APFS, Apple‘s file system formats.
Right, so anything that might be used with other machines.
ZIP files created with macOS‘ file manager Finder can also contain DS_Store files.
Yes, the idea is to support macOS features on non native file systems.
If you want to look it up, some of this goes back to HFS, a file system with a resource fork and data fork. It allows you to do pretty cool stuff.
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Huh? I’ve seen it on the git untracked files list on APFS drives, I’m pretty sure.
In fact I know some companies just add it to .gitignore for that reason
To add to this, it does not do this on drives/folders added to the indexing exclusion list
Depending on how you interact with your computer, and when you started being a Mac user, I’m not surprised.
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Apple treats it’s users like children, i would feel so not respected. Yeah you bought the machine but don’t worry your pretty little head with these confusing files
That’s cause they’re hidden from you. The file does not show up on MacOS, even if you enable showing hidden files.