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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 3 points 5 hours ago (7 children)

I’m such a Mac user that I don’t even get it. I am simultaneously laughing at myself and embarrassed.

[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

MacOS create these directories to store metadata. But because it starts with a dot, you don’t normally see it.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

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 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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