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The funny part is actually that its not supposed to create DS_store everywhere:

> There is also an unfortunate bug that is not fixed to this day that result in an excessive creation of .DS_Store file. Those files should only be created if the user actually makes adjustments to the view settings or set a manual location for icons in a folder. That’s unfortunately not what happens and visiting a folder pretty much guarantees that a .DS_Store file will get created

I get the sense that if you are annoyed by it, you aren't the target audience of Mac OS, the target audience are technologically illiterate people for who it really doesn't matter (they barely know what folders are anyway), so to Apple there is no reason to ever invest any effort to fix it.






By that logic, though, there was never any reason to implement it in the first place.



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