Resource fork bug?

I have a late 08 xServe running Mac OS 10.5.6 Server. All shared data is residing on a new Promise RAID with a QLogic fibre channel switch sitting in between the server and RAID.
Two days ago a strange thing happened. On all my AFP shares old pre OS X files without extensions started showing generic terminal app icons. The first thing I thought was I had volume corruption. I verified all volumes with Disk Utility and they all come up clean. Then I found all my directories are littered with invisible "._" resource fork files. If I run the FixupResourceForks command on a directory I get a -43 error on all the files with split resource forks. Not all files have split resource forks. If I copy new files without extensions to the files server over AFP they retain their resource forks, icon and application association. Also if I copy a directory with files with split resource forks to the boot drive and run the FixupResourceForks command I still get a -43 error. So this rules out a problem with the Promise RAID setup.
Other than this issue the server is running flawless and there is no problem with data corruption or lost files.
A call to Apple tech support was no help. Their answer was to add a file extension to all these old files. That is not an option since there is hundreds of gigabytes of files on this server.
This has got to be a new bug with 10.5.6 Server. Anyone else have this problem?

Thanks for responding to my post. Sorry for the length of my response. I have a lot of share points on this server!
1. I transfered all files from the old file server to the new server over AFP. I do have my share points shared out over SMB as I do have Windows users. (see below share point info)
2. All volumes are formatted HFS+ (see below diskutil info)
3. You could be right about my use of FixupResourceForks. This is what I am seeing on a directory copied from a RAID volume to the boot drive:
filesrv:~ admin$ cd /Images
filesrv:Images admin$ ls -la
total 88
drwxrwxrwx 10 admin admin 340 Jan 12 18:33 .
drwxrwxr-t 35 root admin 1258 Jan 12 18:23 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 admin admin 15364 Jan 12 18:33 .DS_Store
-rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 82 Sep 2 11:53 ..DSStore.3qZ
-rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 82 Apr 17 2002 ._1.gif.8it
-rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 82 Apr 17 2002 ._2.gif.Ty1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 82 Apr 17 2002 ._3.gif.zHU
-rwxrwxrwx 1 admin admin 169 Apr 17 2002 1.gif
-rwxrwxrwx 1 admin admin 212 Apr 17 2002 2.gif
-rwxrwxrwx 1 admin admin 216 Apr 17 2002 3.gif
filesrv:Images admin$ /System/Library/CoreServices/FixupResourceForks /Images
/Images/..DSStore.3qZ
Error processing "/Images/..DSStore.3qZ" (-43)
/Images/._1.gif.8it
Error processing "/Images/._1.gif.8it" (-43)
/Images/._2.gif.Ty1
Error processing "/Images/._2.gif.Ty1" (-43)
/Images/._3.gif.zHU
Error processing "/Images/._3.gif.zHU" (-43)
/System/Library/CoreServices/FixupResourceForks: fnfErr (-43): /Images
filesrv:Images admin$
filesrv:~ admin$ diskutil info "/Volumes/Faculty" | grep -A6 "Volume Name"
Volume Name: Faculty
Mount Point: /Volumes/Faculty
File System: Journaled HFS+
Journal size 40960 KB at offset 0xfa0000
Owners: Enabled
Partition Type: Apple_HFS
filesrv:~ admin$ diskutil info "/Volumes/Image" | grep -A6 "Volume Name"
Volume Name: Image
Mount Point: /Volumes/Image
File System: Journaled HFS+
Journal size 40960 KB at offset 0xfa0000
Owners: Enabled
Partition Type: Apple_HFS
filesrv:~ admin$ diskutil info "/Volumes/Student" | grep -A6 "Volume Name"
Volume Name: Student
Mount Point: /Volumes/Student
File System: Journaled HFS+
Journal size 40960 KB at offset 0xfa0000
Owners: Enabled
Partition Type: Apple_HFS
filesrv:~ admin$ diskutil info "/Volumes/OSX-Server" | grep -A6 "Volume Name"
Volume Name: OSX-Server
Mount Point: /
File System: Journaled HFS+
Journal size 16384 KB at offset 0x4ab000
Owners: Enabled
Partition Type: Apple_HFS
filesrv:~ admin$
filesrv:~ admin$ sudo sharing -l
Password:
List of Share Points
name: 2009
path: /Volumes/Student/Student Server/2009
afp: {
name: 2009
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: 2009
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: 2009
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 489
create mask: 420
name: 2010
path: /Volumes/Student/Student Server/2010
afp: {
name: 2010
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: 2010
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: 2010
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 489
create mask: 420
name: 2011
path: /Volumes/Student/Student Server/2011
afp: {
name: 2011
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: 2011
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: 2011
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 489
create mask: 420
name: 2012
path: /Volumes/Student/Student Server/2012
afp: {
name: 2012
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: 2012
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: 2012
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 489
create mask: 420
name: Admissions Server
path: /Volumes/Faculty/Faculty Server/Group Folders/Admissions Server
afp: {
name: Admissions Server
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: Admissions Server
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: Admissions Server
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 505
create mask: 420
name: AP Spanish
path: /Volumes/Student/Student Server/AP Spanish
afp: {
name: AP Spanish
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: AP Spanish
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: AP Spanish
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 489
create mask: 420
name: Collage
path: /Volumes/Student/Student Server/Collage
afp: {
name: Collage
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: Collage
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: Collage
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 489
create mask: 420
name: College
path: /Volumes/Faculty/Faculty Server/Group Folders/College
afp: {
name: College
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: College
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: College
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 505
create mask: 420
name: Comments
path: /Volumes/Faculty/Faculty Server/Group Folders/Comments
afp: {
name: Comments
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: Comments
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: Comments
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 489
create mask: 420
name: Dictation
path: /Volumes/Faculty/Faculty Server/Group Folders/Dictation
afp: {
name: Dictation
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: Dictation
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: Dictation
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 505
create mask: 420
name: DOS Server
path: /Volumes/Faculty/Faculty Server/Group Folders/DOS Server
afp: {
name: DOS Server
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: DOS Server
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: DOS Server
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 505
create mask: 420
name: English Department
path: /Volumes/Faculty/Faculty Server/Group Folders/English Department
afp: {
name: English Department
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: English Department
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: English Department
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 505
create mask: 420
name: Health Center
path: /Volumes/Faculty/Faculty Server/Group Folders/Health Center
afp: {
name: Health Center
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: Health Center
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: Health Center
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 505
create mask: 420
name: Illustration
path: /Volumes/Student/Student Server/Illustration
afp: {
name: Illustration
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: Illustration
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: Illustration
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 505
create mask: 420
name: Image Server
path: /Volumes/Image/Image Server
afp: {
name: Image Server
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: Image Server
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: Image Server
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 505
create mask: 420
name: Install
path: /Volumes/Faculty/Faculty Server/Install
afp: {
name: Install
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: Install
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: Install
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 493
create mask: 420
name: IT
path: /Volumes/Faculty/Faculty Server/IT
afp: {
name: IT
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: IT
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: IT
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 505
create mask: 420
name: LD Folder
path: /Volumes/Faculty/Faculty Server/Group Folders/LD Folder
afp: {
name: LD Folder
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: LD Folder
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: LD Folder
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 505
create mask: 420
name: Library
path: /Volumes/Faculty/Faculty Server/Group Folders/Library
afp: {
name: Library
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: Library
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: Library
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 505
create mask: 420
name: Personal Folders
path: /Volumes/Faculty/Faculty Server/Personal Folders
afp: {
name: Personal Folders
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: Personal Folders
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: Personal Folders
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 489
create mask: 420
name: Quant à Moi
path: /Volumes/Student/Student Server/Quant à Moi
afp: {
name: Quant à Moi
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: Quant à Moi
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: Quant à Moi
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 489
create mask: 420
name: Spanish 1&2
path: /Volumes/Student/Student Server/Spanish 1&2
afp: {
name: Spanish 1&2
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: Spanish 1&2
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: Spanish 1&2
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 489
create mask: 420
name: Spanish 3
path: /Volumes/Student/Student Server/Spanish 3
afp: {
name: Spanish 3
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: Spanish 3
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: Spanish 3
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 489
create mask: 420
name: Technology
path: /Volumes/Faculty/Faculty Server/Technology
afp: {
name: Technology
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: Technology
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: Technology
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 505
create mask: 420
name: Theater
path: /Volumes/Faculty/Faculty Server/Group Folders/Theater
afp: {
name: Theater
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: Theater
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: Theater
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 505
create mask: 420
name: Westminster News
path: /Volumes/Student/Student Server/Westminster News
afp: {
name: Westminster News
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: Westminster News
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: Westminster News
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 505
create mask: 420
name: William Shakespeare
path: /Volumes/Student/Student Server/William Shakespeare
afp: {
name: William Shakespeare
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: William Shakespeare
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: William Shakespeare
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 493
create mask: 420
name: Yearbook Supplement
path: /Volumes/Student/Student Server/Yearbook Supplement
afp: {
name: Yearbook Supplement
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: Yearbook Supplement
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: Yearbook Supplement
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 505
create mask: 420
name: Yearbook
path: /Volumes/Student/Student Server/Yearbook
afp: {
name: Yearbook
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
ftp: {
name: Yearbook
shared: 0
guest access: 0
smb: {
name: Yearbook
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 1
directory mask: 505
create mask: 420
filesrv:~ admin$

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Why not use Time Machine instead of some "third party hack" for your backups?
CCCloner is worthless garbage IMHO. I tried to restore a system with it after a HD replacement and it wouldn't work because the owner changed user name and/or password on reinstall of the OS. Thus it wouldn't recognize the Library to copy the files. In fact, it wouldn't grant access to the backup, claiming permissions conflicts. I had to run a CHMOD and CHOWN from Single User Mode to be able to get to backed up files, but the Library and Applications were useless.
From what I know of it, CCC is OK for cloning a brand new hard drive to put in a new machine, but beyond that it's way too complicated in what it does and how.
As far as PS changing data or resource forks, I was never aware that it did. I could be mistaken.
This question would be better answered by the developers of SilverKeeper though.

Disk Copy .img w/out resource fork

I recently zeroed-out and repartitioned my Wallstreet hard-drive. Before I did so, I put all important files (mostly a decade's worth of Word .docs) in a compressed, read-only .img created by Disk Copy.
Due to cramped-ness of my 2 gb drive, lack of CD burner, and difficulty Apple-Talking between OS 9 and Tiger, I decided to have Disk Copy write the .img directly to my USB thumb drive.
Unfortunately, the thumb drive was naturally in a FAT format. And since it took upwards of four hours to create and compress the .img via my USB 1.1 connection, I decided not to test mount it before I proceeded with the repartition. And so I didn't realize until much too late that the .img I'd created was doomed to fail from the start, being without a resource fork.
So now I've spent two days trying to recover the pristine beauties of the .img data fork but have so far failed.
I've used ResEdit to create a fork and copy and paste into it the three necessary resource types from various uncorrupted .imgs made specifically for the purpose. I've reset creator and type to rohd and ddsk. I've tried fiddling with the code in the bcem resource to trick Disk Copy into mounting the issue. I've turned off all checksumming. I've tried both Disk Copy and the Disk Utilities in Jaguar and Tiger. And I've tried to mount it with a disk-mounting utility in Windows XP, thinking that perhaps a Windows utility might succeed, not needing the resource fork.
Nothing has worked. I get a variety of errors depending on which OS I'm working in, but the gist is the same. File is damaged; can't be mounted.
I've been through all the what-ifs and should-haves, and I've ransacked Google and various boards for ideas, and I'm still stuck.
Does anyone know of a method whereby the contents of an (unfortunately) compressed Disk Copy .img can be recovered without the resource fork? I've got 835 mb of perfect data that I can't access for the lack of a few k.
Are there any bcem resource hacks I can try?
Any third party utilities?
Windows utilities?
I'd even be willing to try hacking Disk Copy itself if somebody could get me pointed in the right direction.
Disk Copy, give me back my legions!!
Thanks for any and all help.
Dave

Ha HA!
The problem was not quite what I thought.
The problem wasn't that I had saved the .img to a FAT thumb drive. The problem was that I copied the contents of that FAT disk onto my Tiger Intel iMac and then later recopied it onto the FAT drive--without including the OS-9-created FINDER.DAT and RESOURCE.FRK files when I did so; I simply grabbed the .img file, thinking it had all the info I needed.
But then I read this:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121732
When I went back and looked on my Intel drive, I found the RESOURCE.FRK and FINDER.DAT files still patiently waiting for me. I copied those files (and Desktop DB, Desktop DF, FILEID.DAT for good measure) onto the FAT thumb drive along with the .img file and plugged the drive into the Wallstreet. Lo and behold, only the .img file was visible. OS 9 had automatically taken the information from the other files (including the longed-for resource fork) and incorporated them back into the .img file.
I copied it onto the Wallstreet, and bingo! it mounted perfectly.
Yay!
Perhaps some poor soul in the future will benefit from my experience (although given the state of OS 9 these days, that's probably not too likely.)
Thanks all,
Dave

Resource fork et al deletion with usb stick drives

I know there are lots of discussions about 'extra files' not used by other operating systems (such as resource forks and .Trashes and .DS_Stores and spotlight files and and whatever) so I hope this doesn't bore people but....
I use a usb stick a lot, mostly to share data cross-platform. I want to get rid of the unusable files to make my colleagues' life easier and unclog my life. I know I prevent some of them over network connections, but that is only some of them, and that is only over network connections.
I can't disable the creation of these using the method that applies to network connections (Article: HT1629).
Can I just go to terminal and go:
cd /Volumes/USBStick
rm -fr .*
This is seeming to work. I get an error about not being able to delete the . file and the .. file, but it happily goes ahead and gets rid of the rest.
Seeing that it appears to work, can I dispense with paying for BlueHarvest (at least for my situation)? Or have I inadvertently destroyed essential data and should expect imminent falling of the sky upon my head?
thanks all,
diddles.

Definitely a yawn here. As your wonderful machine is the source of this important data that's transferred over to that 'other' platform, convince your colleague that his life will be easier still if he buys a Mac. Thereafter, the invisible files will be just that.
An expensive solution, but I think a good one.

Why do aliases have giant resource forks?

...and what's the best way to remove them?
I noticed recently that aliases that I create take up multi-megabytes of disk space, rather than the couple dozen k that they used to take on older operating systems. I found some threads here in the support community that explain that these aliases contain huge, apparently useless, data or resource forks. What I can't find is a good answer to these two quesitons:
1. Why? Is there a reason why Mavericks creates these big forks in an alias? Is it used for something? Is it a mistake? Is there some reason Apple did this? Do we think they'll change it in the future? (What a huge nuisance to have to modify these files!)
2. What's the best way to get rid of these forks if I want to do that? I found one link to some sort of script, but it seemed dangerous to me, and it's an unrecongized developer, so I can't easily launch it anyway. In the App Store, I find one utility that might do the trick: FileUtility. Not sure if I should trust it. It has been reviewed by exactly one person, and that review is incoherent. Any suggestions?

Hi William,
That makes sense - but I had looked at my IIS setups and they appear the same for all KBs, again here are settings for WPA Supplier & User. I created both the same day, the same way, and have compared all tabs which are identical. I can double check on how the DNS aliases that were set up, but they should have been identical as well

OSX and Windows Server 2000 resource forks

Our shop is 95% OSX with a Windows Server 2000 server. There is one application that is sensitive to image file resource forks copied to the server. When the app does a particular operation if there are resource forks in the folder the operation fails.
Is there a way to either strip the forks on the copy operation? Or is there a way to block them in Windows Server?
BTW, the application is a dedicated print server RIP linked to a Durst photographic printer running on Windows XP.
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) Windows Server 2000
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) Windows Server 2000
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) Windows Server 2000

I feel your pain. I have been dealing with the same thing and found the following options:
Try turning on "Services for Macintosh" or SFM on the windows server. I am NOT a windows guy I have had mixed results when my LAN folks have done this for me. In some instances the ._rsrc files don't appear, and this won't fix long name issues if you are having them.
Another way to go w/o touching the windows server...third party.
Path Finder 4: http://www.cocoatech.com/pf4
Blue Harvest: http://zeroonetwenty.com/blueharvest/#faq
KopyMac 2.6.1b: http://www.tcsn.net/mont/index2.html
I have not tried the third party solution yet. I am still convinced there must be some way to have the mac just stop creating the files, but so far I have nothing. The only article apple has that is remotley related addresses .DS_Store files and NOT the ._rsrc files. I tries the edit to com.apple.desktopservices.plist and I still had a server full of ._bsfile.
Hope this helps, and if anyone out there has the 100% mac solution PLEASE share.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Faking resource forks via SMB

I've got a Windows application that needs to fake resource fork creation for sharing to Macs of all kinds.
For years I've been successfully faking the resource forks, finder info etc when running on UNIX (use netatalk and put the AppleDouble file in the .AppleDouble folder).
I've worked out how to fake the forks if SFM sharing is being used, by creating the NTFS file forks (:AFP_Resource, :AFP_AfpInfo, :Comments). This works wonderfully for both MacOS X and MacOS 9 clients.
I can't work out how to do it if SMB is being used. I'm merrily creating "dot underscore" versions of the files and putting the AppleDouble format data into it (which is what I see if a mac saves a file with resource forks onto the SMB share), but the Mac refuses to accept that there are any resources (or custom icons etc).
Please don't suggest I look at DAVE or other third party solutions. My application sends copies of the pictures to hundreds of remote sites, and I have no control over what software they're running. This needs to work just with standard Windows and Mac software.
Any ideas?
Paul
Windows XP

Sorted it.
1. Always set the magic number 0x00051607 at the start of the "dot underscore" AppleDouble file. I never bothered when using netatalk to share from UNIX, so netatalk must have been fixing this for me.
2. The "dot underscore" AppleDouble file contains only the Finder Info and the Resource Fork - nothing else. My netatalk files also contained Comments [#4], File Info [#7], and Filename [#3] entries.
Paul
Windows XP

How to create a new file with existing file's resource fork?

Hello,
I would like to create a new file that has the resource fork of an existing file. I had though of making a copy of the existing file, seek to the beginning of the copy and write the new data, but for large files, that creates the whole file even when not needed. I currently create the new file with [NSFileManager createFileAtPath: contents: attributes:], but attributes do not include resource fork items, like custom icons, color label, etc.
[NSURL resourceValuesForKeys] gives a common subset of resource data, like icons and color label, but that's about it. Is there some way to get the resource fork or a copy of the file without getting the whole file?
Thanks

What are you trying to do here? While resource forks might still be quasi-supported, you really shouldn't be thinking about them as such. Instead, think in terms of extended attributes. You can use the low-level xattr() functions to get some of that or you can use the new NSURL methods.

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