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Can someone explain why MacOS always seems to create _MACOSX folders in zips that we Linux/Windows users always delete anyway?
Window adds desktop.ini randomly too
Linux adds .demon_portal files all over my computer too.
That's not Linux doing that. It's the demons in your hardware trying to escape. They normally don't cause too many issues luckily, but if you don't close the portals occasionally they can take over your system.
Yeah, those tend to be pre-folder settings for the File Explorer.
Like View options, thumbnails and such.
It's been a while for me, but I think there was something specially for thumbnails too. You might find one if you go into the folder options and set a folder to optimized for pictures/videos and add some to it.
Anti Commercial-AI license
You're thinking of the
thumbs.dbfiles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_thumbnail_cache#Thumbs.dbHuh, never noticed that. Probably always thought that was just part of the program/files needed.
this is a complete uneducated guess from a relatively tech-illiterate guy, but could it contain mac-specific information about weird non-essential stuff like folder backgrounds and item placement on the no-grid view?
Correct. It contains filesystem metadata that's not supported in the zip files "filesystem".
Interesting. We have that in Linux too just not for every directory.
They're Metadata specific for Macs.
If you download a third party compression tool they'll probably have an option somewhere to exclude these from the zips but the default tool doesn't Afaik.
Thanks! Hmm, never thought of looking at 7zip's settings to see if it can autodelete/not unpack that stuff. I'll see if I can find such a setting!
You can definitely check, but I would expect the option to exist when the archive is created rather than when it's extracted
"Resource forks" IIRC, old stuff. Same for the .DS_Store file.
For just $12.99 you can disable this https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blueharvest/id739483376
Because Apple always gotta fuck with and "innovate" perfectly working shit
Windows's built-in tool can make zips without fucking with shit AND the resulting zip works just fine across systems.
Mac though...Mac produced zips always ALWAYS give me issues when trying to unzip on a non-mac (ESPECIALLY Linux)
MacOS has two files per file, so the extras need to be stored somewhere.