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While resource forks are deprecated and on the retreat, extended attributes are a new hotness, used extensively (just download a file in the browser, and it wil
by vetinari 9y ago
While resource forks are deprecated and on the retreat, extended attributes are a new hotness, used extensively (just download a file in the browser, and it will get com.apple.quarantine and com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms). These are also shoveled into AppleDouble files. Actually, resource fork is just com.apple.ResourceFork extended attribute.
I'm not sure that there are more than 1% of mac users do not exchange files with other people, possibly on other platforms. What do they use the computer for, then? iPad would be more suitable then.
- mattnewton 9y agoGP is saying they don't pass around flash drives to do so, not that they don't share files.
- klodolph 9y agoI think that there are well more than 1% of users, maybe 20% or higher, that never share files except to attach a picture to an email, upload it to Facebook, or something similar like that. It's a bit of a nitpick, though, but we do often forget the "non-power" computer users.