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by peglasaurus 2182 days ago
Well, I could go on a rant around their purpose and some of us would ultimately decide these files like so many others are actually just debris.

Instead I will say we can have a set of critters that cull them in various interesting ways. Critters that watch filesystems for these files and remove them if they still exist an hour after creation. Or remove them all on a schedule. Or block list them via .gitignore and similar. Sync scripts that have block lists for files and folders that match names. The solutions are endless.

This isn’t only a mac thing either. Other OS create their own variations of debris.