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someonebaggy • yesterday at 3:04 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

And why should they? I don't know where my browser cache is either. Or my rows in my sqlite database. Or the system clock configuration. Actually I do know: They're stored on the hard drive.

Files aren't physical.


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gizajob • yesterday at 3:14 PM

Diff two iPhoto libraries to check if they contain the duplicate photos

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skydhash • yesterday at 3:42 PM

> And why should they? I don't know where my browser cache is either.

This makes it a pain where you want to have a custom configuration. Like moving the cache to a ramdisk. My NVME disk is plenty fast, but rarely I want my browser cache to persist across a reboot. It's a pain to move the cache to /tmp/firefox-cache as an example (/tmp is a ramdisk on my laptop). Also a pain to backup profiles.

dankobgd • yesterday at 3:06 PM

i know where mine is, so i can clear it myself if i care.

bigstrat2003 • yesterday at 4:30 PM

So which is it? Is Apple not responsible for ditching the filesystem, or is it a good thing that Apple has ditched the filesystem? You can't have it both ways.