On 14/04/2012, at 11:28 PM, Michael Hall wrote:

> I did a quick google out of curiosity and there doesn't appear to be much 
> available anymore to handle actually looking at or working with resource 
> forks. If you can examine contents you could scan for the AppleEvent id's 
> 'alis' or 'bmrk'. You should of course also see a file name in there 
> somewhere. I'm not sure what other overhead there might be, length's maybe? 

The overwhelming bulk of the data seems to be repeated.

> If I had to guess the Finder is writing copies to both the resource and data 
> forks. Are you sure the ~96KB isn't both forks? 

Yes:

Shanes-iMac:~ shane$ ls -@l /Users/shane/Desktop/untitled\ folder 
total 480
-rw-r--r--@ 1 shane  shane  48296 14 Apr 21:55 key path samples copy.scpt alias 
5
        com.apple.FinderInfo       32 
        com.apple.ResourceFork  95212 
-rw-r--r--@ 1 shane  shane  48360 13 Apr 22:31 key path samples copy.scpt alias 
6
        com.apple.FinderInfo       32 
        com.apple.ResourceFork  47976 


-- 
Shane Stanley <sstan...@myriad-com.com.au>
'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>


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