Can you restore the original layout/location of manually arranged icons?

I refer to the placement of items in a folder -- for example, if a folder was set to icon view, and the icons were arranged a specific shape (i.e. a square or a happy face), would that pattern survive a Time Machine restore?
Furthermore, does anybody know where data pertaining to icon location is kept?
I ask this question because my colleague uses folders with manual icon arrangement as a metadata.
The Apple Store employees I spoke with today did not know if Time Machine tracks this data.
(Interestingly, my colleague's reference system has powered a number of highly influential publications. Perhaps this question could also be filed under the ethnography of data curation?)
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
-Jim

Jim Sigterm wrote:
I refer to the placement of items in a folder -- for example, if a folder was set to icon view, and the icons were arranged a specific shape (i.e. a square or a happy face), would that pattern survive a Time Machine restore?
yes.
Furthermore, does anybody know where data pertaining to icon location is kept?
in the file .DS_Store sitting in the folder in question. there is a file like that in every folder.
I ask this question because my colleague uses folders with manual icon arrangement as a metadata.
wow!
The Apple Store employees I spoke with today did not know if Time Machine tracks this data.
(Interestingly, my colleague's reference system has powered a number of highly influential publications. Perhaps this question could also be filed under the ethnography of data curation?)
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
-Jim

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yes.
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Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
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