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

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 75 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] amon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

APFS still supports resource forks just fine - I can unstuff a 1990's Mac application in Sequoia on a Apple Silicon Mac, copy it to my Synology NAS over SMB, and then access that NAS from a MacOS 9 Mac using AFP and it launches just fine.

The Finder just doesn't use most of it so that it gets preserved in file copies and zip files and such.