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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 358

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 358. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Thinly dispersed line of people could save lots of space.

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sparse file

Thinly dispersed (sparse) line of people (a file) could save lots of space (what a sparse file can do).

2: Identical copy of rasp when duplicated.

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clone file

Identical copy (a clone) of rasp (a file) when duplicated (what is created when you duplicate a file in the Finder).

3: Steadfast 7.92 inch two-way volume connector.

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firmlink

Steadfast (firm) 7.92 inch (link, an old imperial measure of length equal to this) two-way volume connector (a firmlink is just that, between System and Data volumes).

The common factor

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They’re all distinctive features of the APFS file system.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.