alt Hacker Newsthumbs.db and those weird MS alternative stream files for recording origination.
filesystem attributes are for decorating files with meaning. Anything else that attempts to use filesystems in "interesting" ways is silly.
Apple and MS really ought to consider why they do this sort of fragile, idiosyncratic nonsense.
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noisem4ker • today at 10:47 AM
> Thumbs.db
Windows has been storing thumbnail cache in the user profile folder since Vista (2006).
It's been 20 years. Time to let it go.
But... thumbs.db is precisely not an "attempt to use filesystems in "interesting" ways" — it's literally a just hidden file with previews stored in it. Storing the preview in the alternative stream of the file with the picture itself would be "an interesting way".