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 [WayBack] Didier Trosset answered at [WayBack] How to delete many 0 byte files in linux? – Stack Overflow
Before I do that, I need to read these in more detail:
- [WayBack] Anon answering [WayBack] osx – Icon^M file on Mac OS X – Super User
- [WayBack] Daniel Beck answering [WayBack] osx – Icon? file on OS X desktop – Super User
- [WayBack] [Help] Empty files named “Icon” appearing everywhere. : osx
- [Archive.is] Google Drive App on Mac OSX makes Icon? file. – Google Product Forums
–jeroen






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