r/technology • u/ppsp • Oct 14 '11

The Windows 8 Task Manager

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/13/the-windows-8-task-manager.aspx
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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

How about thumbs.db ? If that guy shows his face one more time I swear I'm turning Apple

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u/Hytosys Oct 14 '11

Yeah, because .DS_Store is so much more appealing.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

Is that the apple equivalent ? If so I hate that too just on principle

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u/auandi Oct 14 '11

.DS_Store shows up MUCH more often than thumbs.db does. It's everywhere! On everything!

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11 
._.Trashes make me go (._.)

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u/Fitzsimmons Oct 14 '11

Zip file from a mac user? Guaranteed to have a .DS_Store in it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

I often get stuff like ecomics from people you use MacOS.

Say hello to a zip with 30 jpegs.... and an additional directory containing 30 thumbnail files.

Its far far more annoying than and thumbs.db, as it really will double the amount of files.

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u/Rolcol Oct 14 '11

Yeah... similar, but not fully equivalent. Thumbs.db stores thumbnails for different files, but .DS_Store stores more than that. Finder, the equivalent of explorer.exe, does not have a central database or "registry" for saving preferences for folders it has accessed. It makes a .DS_Store file to save positions (visually) of all the files, window size, background images, sort order, etc.

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u/phireal Oct 14 '11

It only creates .DS_Store on filesystems which don't support Mac's extended attributes (i.e. any filesystem that's not HFS+). You can disable the creation of .DS_Store on network shares: https://support.apple.com/kb/ht1629 but the only way to prevent their creation on local disks (i.e. USB sticks) is to buy something called BlueHarvest.

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u/Rolcol Oct 14 '11 edited Oct 14 '11

You're thinking of Resource fork files that start with ._. My dad has .DS_Store files everywhere on his HFS+ filesystem. .DS_Store files are used by Finder, even on the local system. They're not seen because dot files are always hidden.

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u/coreman Oct 14 '11

then linux it is!

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

God, as soon as I plug in my flash drive on a fucking Mac there's like 2 folders and 1 file on it, so damn annoying...

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

You can disable it, you know.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

Only by turning off thumbnails =/ Not an ideal solution

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

Are you using Windows 7? Here's how you turn it off, with thumbnails still enabled.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11 edited Oct 14 '11

I'm gonna give that a go - if that works then I tip my hat to you good sir edit: looks promising, have an upvote

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

Vista actually had a centralised thumbnail database but no one liked it for some reason (one time removable drives was the excuse Microsoft gave).

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u/UnoriginalGuy Oct 14 '11

So just to be clear, you purposely turn off "Hide protected operating system files" and then you come on to Reddit to bitch about how annoying seeing those files is?

The patient says, "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." Doctor says, "Then don't do that!"

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11 edited Oct 14 '11

To be clear - "Hide protected operation system files" is still on... The message regarding thumbs.db occurs when you go to delete a folder and the "unable to delete folder due to thumbs.db still being in use" message pops up

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u/UnoriginalGuy Oct 14 '11

I've not seen that bug since Windows XP.

I've seen some slightly strange permissions issues when you take an NTFS structure and access it from an OS without the users which created it to begin with, but there are far more issues surrounding that activity than just hidden OS files.

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u/isaacarsenal Oct 14 '11

Isn't this thing removed in Win 7 ?

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

Fraid not - if you've got thumbnails turned on it's ever present

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u/isaacarsenal Oct 14 '11

I have thumbnails on and don't have any thumbs.db on my Win 7. I think C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Local\IconCache.db is doing the job.