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lurker616 on Feb 20, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Drive users stung by macOS '.DS_Store' copy...

Why isn't something like that required on windows or linux?

_h9mb on Feb 20, 2022 | [–]

Linux has XDG base directories despite many vendors no using them.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory

PS. I don't know about Mac but Windows also have similar directories although more of a mess.

There's no reason to save artifacts or local user config along with data.

tomerv on Feb 20, 2022 | [–]

Windows has Thumbs.db

Tempest1981 on Feb 20, 2022 | [–]

And desktop.ini, for folder customization

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