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[–] [email protected] 109 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

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

~~.desktop~~ desktop.ini

Edit: fixed the filename

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

lost+found

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

.Trash-1000

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

... You mean desktop.ini?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 131 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Thumbs.db

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-disable-windows-thumbs-db-files-from-being-created this kills that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks but sadly my Windows peers won't do this because it's a manual step and they're already afraid of Windows knifing their computer with an update without making manual changes on top of that.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

ehthumbs_vista.db

[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 months ago (1 children)

System Volume Information

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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