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[–] 110 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Fuckin thumbs.db and lost+found hiding on every USB stick.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Seriously fuck thumbs.db anywhere it can be found.

    THIS IS WHY NTFS HAS ALTERNATE DATA STREAMS, USE THEM YOU FUCKERS YOU CREATED IT.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    EXPLAIN HOW

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Alternate data streams look like normal files but with an appended identifier.

    For example test.txt:stream1 is an alternate data stream of test.txt. Move or copy the file and the ADS goes with it.

    They can be created like other files (“echo > test.txt:stream1”)

    You can see them with “dir /r” at the command line.

    You can even have an alternate data stream with no corresponding file. In my opinion this is what thumbs.db should have been.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    you are shitting me, that's so cool. This command only works for NTFS?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    It works, and yes only on NTFS… but many applications may not be able to open these “files”.

    It’s actually sort of a weird historical thing, goes back to the roots of Windows NT in VMS and also compatibility with Mac OS (classic) and its “resource forks”

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Back 20+ years ago I used alternate data streams to his my collection of files (the ones you find online as a teenager) behind a text file. You can shove anything you want (I think) in them, even including extensions to make sure it opened in the right program (i.e. test.txt:malware.msi).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Easiest fix, change the folder view to another, like "list", then back and it won't be locked anymore. Might take a second or two, but will unlock.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not sure what you’re talking about. “Locked”?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    You mean list? Click these icons and change the folder view from icons to something else, like "list" or "details", then thumbs.db can be deleted without windows bitching.

    You can also change under View menu at the top.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    No I mean “locked”.

    I don’t care about windows bitching about these files, I am offended that it shits them (and “desktop.ini”) all over everywhere.

    It’s a total hack, and pathetic for a company the size of Microsoft.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What drives me batty about thumbs.db is that on a modern high end machine with an nvme drive it's not meaningfully faster then just regenerating thumbnails on demand every time, and in fact can be slower under some circumstances. Yet there's no "I don't need this turn it off" option.

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    • [+] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    • [–] 44 points 1 year ago*

    Meh, that's nothing - just look at the multitude of directories forced upon any storage device you plug into something running Android.

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Wait until they cross paths with the ._DS_Store abomination.

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    The most reliable fingerprint.

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    It’s a good thing I never created OS file systems because I would have balls.chin files everywhere. Well, the truth is that someone would have forked it just to change that, then I would have raged and abandoned the project, then a competent maintainer would have grabbed it. What a world.

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Am too poor to afford mac, what this mean?

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It’s a folder that macOS will leave on usb sticks with meta data and stuff I think

    Idk I delete it on sight.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Very cool, I'm still kinda confused why .DS_Store is the identifier for such a folder but still cool Thanks

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    On Unix and Unix-like systems when a file or directory name starts with a . its hidden by default.

    This convention is maintained in the UI for MacOS so you don't see the .DS_Store directory unless you ask to show hidden files.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    On any non Mac native filesystem I think. Anything that MacOS can read but isn't the original filesystem (it used to be HFS, a long time ago, I have no idea what it is nowadays) will be peppered with those metadata files, disk, floppy, thumb drive, whatever.

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    • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    .Spotlight-V100 says hello!

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I’m such a Mac user that I don’t even get it. I am simultaneously laughing at myself and embarrassed.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    MacOS create these directories to store metadata. But because it starts with a dot, you don’t normally see it.

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  • [+] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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).

    Wikipedia

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    • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Hahahaha that's actually hilarious

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