Filesystem noise from spelling

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Files a computer makes on its own, such as .DS_Store or Thumbs.db, are recognized by how their names are spelled and set aside; an office program’s lock file, whose name starts ~$, is left alone, because it means somebody was at work.

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• Kind of rule: What files are (classifies). Says what a file or a folder is, by placing it in a class.

• What it concludes: a class

• Reasoning: defeasible. A conclusion is usually right, and is retracted when a rule it names concludes against it.

• What it reads: one file at a time

Is it available in this version?

Yes, the engine runs it. It publishes no conclusion yet: it names nothing that would defeat its conclusions, and a rule of this kind may not publish a conclusion that nothing could retract.

What would defeat it

It names no rule whose conclusion would defeat it.

This rule is named as what would defeat:

• copies_a_person_answered

• experiments_approved_together

• group_resolved_across_experiments

• group_resolved_within_experiment

• group_series_across_experiments

• name_family_without_stages

• named_for_a_series

• named_for_an_acquisition

• one_name_in_sibling_folders

• replicates_of_one_condition

• same_array_shape

• same_column_schema

• same_name_identity

• same_name_identity_within_experiment

Parameters

Parameter	Shipped value	May be	What it does
senses	["macos_metadata", "windows_metadata", "linux_metadata", "editor_backup", "version_control", "language_cache", "sync_artifact", "archive_helper"]	list of text	The senses that mean nobody chose to make the item.
positions	["whole", "prefix", "suffix"]	list of text	Where a spelling is read: as the whole name, at its start, or at its end. A spelling in the middle of a name is not read.
excluded_surfaces	["~$"]	list of text	Spellings never read: an office suite’s lock file.