Re: Resource fork & metadata - max size?
Re: Resource fork & metadata - max size?
- Subject: Re: Resource fork & metadata - max size?
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 19:35:44 -0700
On 6 May '08, at 10:43 AM, Karl Moskowski wrote:
My question is, how big can the resource fork and Finder info get?
Is reading them into an in-memory NSData object feasible?
There's a very old tech-note called "Don't Abuse The Managers" that
describes limitations of the Resource Manager. IIRC, resource forks
that it manages can't get very big (by today's standards) — maybe
24MB? You should be able to find a copy of the tech-note online
somewhere.
Of course, the fork itself can get arbitrarily large; but no one in
their right mind would have stored anything there without using the
Resource Manager, so I think you don't need to worry about edge cases
like that.
Finder info is tiny, as far as I know.
—Jens
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