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The Origins of DS_store (2006)
If you are a Mac user, or if you have transferred files from Mac to Windows, you’re probably familiar with .DS_Store files. But where does this name come from?
Making any changes to it require huge engineering effort, and any changes usually broke two or three seemingly unrelated features. Part of the work involved separating its user interface and its core functionality, the back-end. There is also an unfortunate bug that is not fixed to this day that result in an excessive creation of.DS_Store file.
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