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minus-squareraspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agohonestly - 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.
minus-squareCroquette@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoI am not familiar with MacOS, but that seems like a nightmare. What is the purpose of these files?
minus-squaredwemthy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoIirc they’re indexes for the system wide search feature, Spotlight
minus-squareFonzie!@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoNope, that’s the .Spotlight-{INDEX} folder which is also often created 😁
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.
I am not familiar with MacOS, but that seems like a nightmare. What is the purpose of these files?
Iirc they’re indexes for the system wide search feature, Spotlight
Nope, that’s the .Spotlight-{INDEX} folder which is also often created 😁