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[-] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago

macOS only does this on network shares or external storage that’s formatted in neither HFS+ nor APFS, Apple‘s file system formats.

[-] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 17 points 6 days ago

Right, so anything that might be used with other machines.

[-] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago

ZIP files created with macOS‘ file manager Finder can also contain DS_Store files.

Yes, the idea is to support macOS features on non native file systems.

If you want to look it up, some of this goes back to HFS, a file system with a resource fork and data fork. It allows you to do pretty cool stuff.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

Huh? I've seen it on the git untracked files list on APFS drives, I'm pretty sure.

In fact I know some companies just add it to .gitignore for that reason

[-] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

To add to this, it does not do this on drives/folders added to the indexing exclusion list

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