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See also: Let’s roll our own .zip implementation that only Mac can reliably read for…reasons

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every time i get a zip file from a mac user it has a folder with random junk in it. what’s up with that? i can open the files without it so clearly those files are unnecessary

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Metadata that’s a holdover from the 1980s MacOS behavior. Hilariously, today, NTFS supports that metadata better than Apple’s own filesystems of today. They can hide it in Alternate Data Streams.

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Why didn’t they add resource/data forks in APFS?

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