• stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    27 days ago

    every time i get a zip file from a mac user it has a folder with random junk in it. what’s up with that? i can open the files without it so clearly those files are unnecessary

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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      27 days ago

      Metadata that’s a holdover from the 1980s MacOS behavior. Hilariously, today, NTFS supports that metadata better than Apple’s own filesystems of today. They can hide it in Alternate Data Streams.