24th August 2007, 1:02 PM
It's really about preventing users from destroying their own system in painful ways to critical files, but yes I always turn on any option I can find to see every hidden file, and I uncover some annoyances. For one, a folder full of photograph (or my custom comic folder, or anything full of images really) tend to be viewed as thumbnails. That's a nice option, but it insists on "caching" it in a thumbnail file. When one of those is put inside every single image folder, it gets just a tad annoying. I'd like to turn off that auto caching as my computer, well both of them, are plenty fast enough to thumbnail all the images on the fly.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)