.DS_Store files in data pack and resource pack folders are read by the game and cause error and warning messages to appear in the game output log.
How to reproduce:
Launch a Minecraft world with the attached data pack or resource pack installed (On a MacOS computer).
When in game, use the /reload command to reload data packs.
Or use the F3-T command to reload resource packs.
Check the game output log.
Expected Result:
These data and resource packs should cause no error messages in the game output window. The files themselves have no errors.
Observed Result:
Warning and error messages appear in the game output log, caused by .DS_Store files.
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While the game does ignore them in the sense that the datapack works, it floods the game output when trying to debug datapacks.
As a result, you get like 30 "errors" in a fully functional datapack every time you reload it.
I agree that this seems like a valid bug. Error messages which the player can't reasonably do anything about have historically been considered valid (see MC-224728, [MC-269959], MC-265371) while warnings have been considered "not a bug" in at least one instance ([MC-97521]). Given this, I don't think it's a moderator's place to call it invalid.
(Note to Mojang: this bug in a nutshell is "Mac users get annoying errors and warnings when reloading datapacks". That seems like a legitimate issue, no? And the fix is as simple as saying "ignore .DS_Store when loading a datapack". As I'm unskilled in the art of code analysis I unfortunately don't know where precisely that check should go, but I imagine it wouldn't take long for a Mojang employee to find the right place.)
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I sincerely hope this resolution is revisited one day, otherwise anytime anyone wants to read the error log of a world with any data packs of significant size which were developed on a Mac, they'll get lots of useless clutter (especially if they reload the packs/the world a lot), unless the pack developer took extra precautions to prevent this.
The game is ignoring the files though, it says that in the logs.