You could say that StuffIt can be more convenient in that it will not create AppleDouble files.īinHex This article/section is a stub - probably a pile of half-sorted notes, is not well-checked so may have incorrect bits. Non-Mac StuffIt uncompressors are implicitly aware of the two forks (since they have actual status as such in the format) and will usually not uncompress on non-MacOS. It's useless on everything but Macs, and can be safely deleted. This will usually be transparent in Mac dealings with such ZIP files, but most other zip utilities in the world aren't specifically aware of Apple's added convention, so the _MACOSX directory will be unpacked on all OSes. When you use MacOS' Create archive option on a folder, you get a regular zip, but it will also contain a _MACOSX directory that mirrors the data directory structure, and stores resource forks in AppleDouble style. Largely superceded by mac disk images (.dmg), and. Primarily combines the data+resource fork into a single file that does not rely on the filesystem can be used to transfer such forked between systems via intermediate systems/transfer methods that have no idea about the forkedness. MacBinary This article/section is a stub - probably a pile of half-sorted notes, is not well-checked so may have incorrect bits. Files that do not really use the resource fork, the resource fork is quite small, e.g.On unices, AppleDouble resource files are automatically hidden, being dotfiles.This means non-Macs can read just the file's actual data (data fork) and avoid getting confused from the resource fork, while macs can additionally use the resource fork. _spectra.pdf contains the resource information for spectra.pdf. _ (dot, underscore) prepended to its filename - for example. When Macs store files on the network, or on unix partitions, they often adopt AppleDouble, meaning that the resource fork is stored in a separate file alongside the first, with. Apple's own filesystems did this, which applies up to OS9. When both forks are accessed via the same filename, this can be referred to as AppleSingle. When it cannot, such as in email attachments, only the data fork is sent.ĪppleDouble, AppleSingle This article/section is a stub - probably a pile of half-sorted notes, is not well-checked so may have incorrect bits. MacOSX will usually add resource forks when it can, including in places like ZIP files. Resource fork: including metadata, icons, and more.Macintosh files contain two forks, that is, two distinct streams if data:
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