[m463]

I apple really made a mess when they started adding .<stuff> in the root of a filesystem and never cleaned it up.

I can see after .DS_Store was allowed, it was no problem for other engineers to approve .fseventsd or .Spotlight-V100 or other nonsense that has cropped up over the years.

And I can't tell you how many filesystems I've had "corrupted" with these sorts of files.

Mostly SD cards, usb flash drives, but occasionally something horrible.

for these kinds of things I usually run:

  rm -rf .DS_Store .Trashes ._.Trashes .fseventsd .Spotlight-V100

and quickly eject the drive before something else is written.

If you've had a disk that is going bad and you need to copy stuff off of it, the LAST thing you want is to index the whole thing and start writing to it.

seriously, there should be a setting.