Explaining inodes, names, dates, permissions, file types, and specialised attributes used for iCloud.
volfs
How can you refer to an important file or directory, no matter where it’s moved on a volume, even when it’s renamed?
A quick tour of this unique utility, and a recommended update for it which brings control over text size, auto-updates, and more.
This update comes with full guidance on how to get the best from the app with Mojave’s privacy protection.
Precize has a fix useful for all users. All three gain easier updating, and full support for Mojave’s Dark Mode.
Adds quick copying to 6 key values, making them much easier and more efficient to paste into other apps, and fixes a bug in Save.
Provides a unique collection of info, including volfs path, inode number, extended attribute and total sizes, Base-64 encoded Bookmark, and more.
New version integrates Bookmark resolution, preview, etc. and has detailed reporting. Runs on El Cap to High Sierra, HFS+ and APFS.
Why wasn’t a Finder Sync extension working properly? What’s the difference between volfs and FileReferenceURLs, and how have they changed in APFS?
First there were inodes, aliases, and links. Finder aliases already use the volfs file system, but Apple wants us to switch to its opaque Bookmarks
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