Re:.Trashes, .fseventsd, and .Spotlight-V100
by emsy on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @03:17AM
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It is useful but it's proprietary and could possibly leverage their own backup drives. Personally, I prefer the explanation that it's there to drive users to create backups. Maybe because Apple knows how reliable HFS+ is ;)
I think skore's point is right though: reminding users to make backups is the lesser evil.
Re:.Trashes, .fseventsd, and .Spotlight-V100
by skore on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @08:18AM
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I actually meant both - You CAN consider it the lesser evil while it also has the nice side effect of clearing the market (for simple backup in OSX) from competition as early as possible.
I think skore's point is right though: reminding users to make backups is the lesser evil.