So I've a question that relates a bit to #83 , I often see several thousand AppleDouble Resource Forks in reports - the donor doesn't expect to donate these to us, they're dotfiles so they're hidden on MacOS, so outside of a disk image or zip, they won't be selected for preservation. I'd love for demystify to be able to say:
- How many files are Resource Forks
- How many files are dotfiles/hidden files
- Perhaps how many windows ADS files too?
- How many files are neither resource forks or dotfiles
More thought might be needed in terms of how this might be most useful, and what kinds of other files might need to be lumped into the aggregate value.
I know that sometimes resourceforks and dotfiles will be selected for preservation in some contexts, but it would be good to know how many are there, and how many files are not resource forks or hidden files.
Curious to know what you think anyhow - just tried demystify-lite for the first time and I'm so impressed!
So I've a question that relates a bit to #83 , I often see several thousand AppleDouble Resource Forks in reports - the donor doesn't expect to donate these to us, they're dotfiles so they're hidden on MacOS, so outside of a disk image or zip, they won't be selected for preservation. I'd love for demystify to be able to say:
More thought might be needed in terms of how this might be most useful, and what kinds of other files might need to be lumped into the aggregate value.
I know that sometimes resourceforks and dotfiles will be selected for preservation in some contexts, but it would be good to know how many are there, and how many files are not resource forks or hidden files.
Curious to know what you think anyhow - just tried demystify-lite for the first time and I'm so impressed!