The Origins of DS_store (2006)

Post by marcodiego » Thu, Jul 04, 2024, 2:00 AM UTC

netsharc wrote: post #45

dylan604 wrote: post #43

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It was all of the forked data that made dual format CDs/DVDs "interesting". In the beginning it was a trick. Eventually, the Mac burning software made it a breeze. Making a Mac bootable DVD was also interesting.

I recall seeing CD-ROMs that had both Mac and Windows software on it, and depending on which OS it was mounted on, it would show the Windows EXE or the Mac app... I wonder how that's done. I'm guessing there was a clever trick so files on both filesystems share the same data (e.g. if the program/game had a movie, it would only store the bytes of the movie once but its addressable as a file on each filesystem), but th…

Post by nullindividual » Thu, Jul 04, 2024, 2:01 AM UTC

organsnyder wrote: post #19

threeseed wrote: post #16

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> the competent design would have been to store them locally (and per user) in a central location on the machine doing the browsing Not sure but it could be the case that when you mount a network drive there isn't a stable identifier that can be used to track it.

Sure, that wouldn't work if the network volume was accessed by different URIs. But it would work in 95% of cases, which is good enough.

Post by doomlaser » Thu, Jul 04, 2024, 2:04 AM UTC

nathan_douglas wrote: post #38

al_borland wrote: post #34

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For those who live their whole life within Apple's walls, they will never see .DS_Store files, unless they use the Terminal. Finder (with hidden files shown) doesn't even show them anymore. It is very ugly when files are shared from a Mac to people on Windows though. I think it gives a bad first impression for anyone who might be thinking of transitioning to the Mac.

They pop up in code repositories too, depending on contents and whether the engineer in question noticed it.

Post by Minor49er » Thu, Jul 04, 2024, 2:06 AM UTC

yellow_postit wrote: post #39

Finder remains one of those apps I still can’t make effective use of. Windows File Explorer for all its warts and changes still “just makes sense” to my brain vs how finder lays things out and expects you to browse. I’ve long since moved to command line or dual pane explorers but it’s something that makes me pause every time I do find myself in Finder for some reason.

Post by gumby » Thu, Jul 04, 2024, 2:07 AM UTC

slmjkdbtl wrote: post #50

I remember there used to ways to turn off the creation of .DS_Store but they removed it, I can't figure out for life why they would make such a change. I had to write a program [0] to watch the entire file system and delete .DS_Store as soon as they're created. [0] https://github.com/slmjkdbtl/dskill