Re: Possible WebDAV bug?
Re: Possible WebDAV bug?
- Subject: Re: Possible WebDAV bug?
- From: Dominic Giampaolo <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:17:05 -0800
Perhaps this goes against the OS/X filesystem design principals, but
I feel I can safely make this assumption because of OS/X's
interoperability with 'foreign systems' (samba share, FAT thumb
drive). As long as I make sure these files don't get thrown away
during a single session I feel I should be able to depend on OS/X to
handle this correctly.
I suppose you're right - this is about file system design
principles. On MacOS we do our utmost to store and preserve
all of a user's data.
The "._" and .DS_Store files contain user generated data.
If you throw them away you are throwing away user data. I
am sure that in your tests things just continue to work but
you are overlooking many important uses. In the case of
things like icon positions in the .DS_Store, it's not a huge
deal to lose them, but in the case of Spotlight comments on
a file, Finder labels or other metadata created by the user
(or by programs on behalf of the user), losing that data is
simply not acceptable.
If you continue to delete these files please make sure that
you document that your file system is lossy so that users
do not unwittingly lose data.
--dominic
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