How to use the command line to find out if a file has resource fork? However, program executable files such as those “.app” may still need the resource fork intact to work, and many programs, including Apple's software, still create resource fork as of. The use of resource fork is discouraged for normal files. This means, you should not simply remove resource fork data. For example, Quick Time movie files used to store main movie data in the resource fork. Some app store main data in resource fork. The data fork is the file's main content, the resource fork stores some extra data such as icon, version number, embedded images, image thumbnail, and much more.
Resource fork is a feature of the Mac's file system HFS Plus, and older file systems used by Mac such as HFS and “Macintosh file system”.Ī file has 2 parts: ① data fork, ② resource fork.
The info on this page is tested on Mac OS X 10.4.x and OS X 10.6.x. This page is tips about Mac OS X's command line tools about Mac's resource fork.
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