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[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 109 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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 133 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] frisbeedude@feddit.org 15 points 11 months ago

ehthumbs_vista.db

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 11 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.

[–] GroupNebula563@lemmy.world 1 points 10 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 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] GroupNebula563@lemmy.world 2 points 10 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 54 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 21 points 11 months ago

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

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

lost+found

[–] Mensh123@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago