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keeperofdakeys on Dec 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Death to .DS_Store

It doesn't matter if modern programs can read _macosx, the problem is modern applications creating them. Since they store useless metadata these days, there is no reason not to stop default creation of them.

maaku on Dec 25, 2011 [–]

My point is that they sometimes do store critical file data.

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