Google Drive flags macOS '.DS_Store' files and nearly empty files for copyright violation

guest · Feb 18, 2022

February 18, 2022

Google Drive was seen flagging '.DS_Store' files generated by macOS file systems as a violation of its copyright infringement policy.

'.DS_Store' is a metadata file commonly seen by Apple users when they transfer their folders and archives from a macOS to a non-Apple operating system, like Windows.
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Is '.DS_Store' copyrighted?
A user reported seeing a ".DS_Store" file on their Google Drive being flagged for violating Google's 'Copyright Infringement' policy.

And, it seems this isn't the first time it's happened either. A similar issue was experienced by some last month, specifically with '.DS_Store' files [1, 2].
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Google Drive flags nearly empty files for 'copyright infringement'
January 25, 2022

Users were left startled as Google Drive's automated detection systems flagged a nearly empty file for copyright infringement.

The file, according to one Drive user, contained nothing other than just the digit "1" within.
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