• Hawke@lemmy.world
      39·
      10 days ago

      Seriously fuck thumbs.db anywhere it can be found.

      THIS IS WHY NTFS HAS ALTERNATE DATA STREAMS, USE THEM YOU FUCKERS YOU CREATED IT.

        • Hawke@lemmy.world
          2·
          10 days ago

          Yes well you’re not wrong.

          Although I use ext4.

          For Linux, the equivalent is Extended Attributes, although they come with significant limitations.

      • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        10 days ago

        Easiest fix, change the folder view to another, like “list”, then back and it won’t be locked anymore. Might take a second or two, but will unlock.

          • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            10 days ago

            You mean list? Click these icons and change the folder view from icons to something else, like “list” or “details”, then thumbs.db can be deleted without windows bitching.

            You can also change under View menu at the top.

            • Hawke@lemmy.world
              4·
              10 days ago

              No I mean “locked”.

              I don’t care about windows bitching about these files, I am offended that it shits them (and “desktop.ini”) all over everywhere.

              It’s a total hack, and pathetic for a company the size of Microsoft.

    • vithigar@lemmy.ca
      6·
      10 days ago

      What drives me batty about thumbs.db is that on a modern high end machine with an nvme drive it’s not meaningfully faster then just regenerating thumbnails on demand every time, and in fact can be slower under some circumstances. Yet there’s no “I don’t need this turn it off” option.

        • vithigar@lemmy.ca
          3·
          9 days ago

          For whatever insane windows-y reason, having a thumbs.db file on a network share is one of those slower scenarios for me. Which is odd because you’d expect that to be the kind of situation where it’s actually useful.

  • FunctionallyLiterate@lemmy.ca
    292·
    11 days ago

    Meh, that’s nothing - just look at the multitude of directories forced upon any storage device you plug into something running Android.

  • buttnugget@lemmy.world
    5·
    10 days ago

    It’s a good thing I never created OS file systems because I would have balls.chin files everywhere. Well, the truth is that someone would have forked it just to change that, then I would have raged and abandoned the project, then a competent maintainer would have grabbed it. What a world.