Re: Bookmark alias files v. Finder alias files
Re: Bookmark alias files v. Finder alias files
- Subject: Re: Bookmark alias files v. Finder alias files
- From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 03:23:03 -0500
On Apr 13, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Shane Stanley wrote:
> When I look in the Finder, a Finder-created alias of the same file is listed as 144KB, while the one I saved is 96KB. I'm curious about what's in that extra 48KB.
>
> I had a look in Terminal and got this:
>
> Shanes-iMac:~ shane$ ls -laoO /Users/shane/Desktop/untitled\ folder
> total 496
> drwxr-xr-x 5 shane - 170 14 Apr 08:44 .
> drwx------@ 310 shane - 10540 14 Apr 08:44 ..
> -rw-r--r--@ 1 shane - 6148 14 Apr 08:44 .DS_Store
> -rw-r--r--@ 1 shane - 48296 13 Apr 22:16 key path samples copy.scpt alias 5
> -rw-r--r--@ 1 shane - 48360 13 Apr 22:31 key path samples copy.scpt alias 6
>
> IOW, there's only 64 bytes difference between them -- meanwhile another 48KB seems unaccounted for.
>
> Does anyone have an explanation?
The Finder-created one probably has a resource fork with additional data. That accounts for the size difference that isn't visible using "ls". Off-hand, I don't know what the resource fork data holds.
Regards,
Ken
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