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[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 108 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Hmm.. Smells like a windows user aswell.. Look at that:

~~.desktop~~ desktop.ini

Edit: fixed the filename

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 131 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Thumbs.db

[–] frisbeedude@feddit.org 15 points 5 months ago

ehthumbs_vista.db

[–] GroupNebula563@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I installed an old program the other day that added a Thumbs.db file from 2008 to every folder containing images as it extracted the program files to disk.

[–] Wolfizen@pawb.social 87 points 5 months ago (1 children)

System Volume Information

[–] GroupNebula563@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Windows is at least relatively un intrusive with that stuff, MacOS often makes hidden metadata files with the same extension as the files they store info about

[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 52 points 5 months ago (1 children)

... You mean desktop.ini?

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 21 points 5 months ago

Ah shit I've forgotten the ancient tablets, ill fix that thank you!

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I've caught the whiff of some Linux too...

lost+found

[–] Mensh123@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

.Trash-1000