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Reminder to self: Sort out empty (zero size) Icon? files in Google Drive folder on OS X and Windows

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/12

It looks like when syncing folders between Mac OS X (MacOS X?) and Windows, many directories get empty Icon? files have a size of 0 bytes.

None of these directories had custom icons, so I’m inclined to remove them all from the Google Drive folder:

find . -name 'Icon*' -size 0 -print0 | xargs -0 rm

as [WayBackDidier Trosset answered at [WayBackHow to delete many 0 byte files in linux? – Stack Overflow

Before I do that, I need to read these in more detail:

–jeroen

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