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		lultimouomo on Feb 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: .Trashes, .fseventsd, and .Spotlight-V100 > Thumbs.db is a random proprietary format I may be wrong here, but it doesn't look to me that .fseventsd, .Trashes and .spotlight are open, standardized multi-platform formats. Unless random proprietary format means "My mac doesn't read it".

__david__ on Feb 4, 2015 [–]

".Trashes" is just a directory. There's no "format" to speak of…

Your point stands for the other files, though.

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