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Old December 14th 17, 09:19 PM posted to comp.sys.mac.apps,alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.mac.system
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Default Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?

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Resource forks died with the Classic versions of Mac OS (the very last
version released was 9.2.2 in December 2001), although Mac OS X does
know how deal with them.


no they didn't. resource forks are very much alive and are still used
to this day on mac os x (although their use is declining).

Resource forks are usually only used by applications - normal document
/ data files do not have resource forks,


many of them did have resource forks.

so they are not how the OS
knows which application to open a document in.


that part is correct. that information is the finder info.

In the application, the
resource fork does contain the information used to establish which
application the document was created / modified in.


nope. that's kept in the desktop database.

Mac OS X applications do still have resources, but they're stored
within a normal file structure, so aren't affected corruption issues
... although the extra folders and files (including Finder specific
data files on disks or in Zip archives) may cause confusion for Windows
users.


mac os x apps are bundles, however, individual files can (and often do)
have resource forks.

Resource fork used to be a problem when Mac users
emailed photos. If they didn't know to strip the Mac-
specific prepended data they'd send a corrupt file.


Nope, not a Mac user problem, and photos, being document / data files,
don't normally have resources forks anyway.


sometimes they did, however, losing the resource fork in a transfer did
not corrupt the image itself.

The application files emailed were corrupted by Windows (either the OS
on the receiver's computer or the OS on the servers the file travelled
through) not knowing how to handle the two forks. Applications files
could also be corrupted by trying to transfer them on Windows formatted
disks. Either way, this was easily worked around by first compressing
the application file using a Mac archiving utility such as Compact Pro
or StuffIt.


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