
This is how you remove them with PowerShell: Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Get-Item -Stream Zone.Identifier -ErrorAction Silentl圜ontinue | Select-Object FileName This command (PowerShell) lists all files with an associated Identifier stream in a directory:
#Absolutely merges support microsoft ntfs file download#
This issue definitely has caused me a bit of pain when I download zipped directories and bring them over to WSL, leading to a proliferation of dozens of. Identifiers are quite useless once they get moved WSL, why not simply ignore the NTFS alternate file stream data during the copy process between file systems. I would argue that having extraneous files pop into existence every time something downloaded is copied over to the WSL filesystem should be classified as a bug and not by-design.

Which puts this (rather unfortunately) in by-design territory, and worse, out-of-scope WSL territory.
