• Hawke@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Seriously fuck thumbs.db anywhere it can be found.

      THIS IS WHY NTFS HAS ALTERNATE DATA STREAMS, USE THEM YOU FUCKERS YOU CREATED IT.

        • Hawke@lemmy.world
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          5 months ago

          Alternate data streams look like normal files but with an appended identifier.

          For example test.txt:stream1 is an alternate data stream of test.txt. Move or copy the file and the ADS goes with it.

          They can be created like other files (“echo > test.txt:stream1”)

          You can see them with “dir /r” at the command line.

          You can even have an alternate data stream with no corresponding file. In my opinion this is what thumbs.db should have been.