Permissions and dates

The next group of information in the document window concerns permissions and dates.

Precize lists each value of the inode data for that file, giving first the  Posix permissions  in octal (base 8), then the  name  and  ID number  of the  owner  and  group . Those are followed by the date and time of  creation  and  last modification  of the file, given in UTC. The next boxes give the  file type , using macOS terminology, and the  reference count , which is the number of file system references to that item.

When running in macOS Big Sur, Precize also provides information about whether a file is a sparse file, and whether it has ever been cloned or is itself a clone. These are shown in the additional checkboxes:

When this is a sparse file, the  Sparse  checkbox will be ticked. You may also see that the space taken on  Disk  is smaller than the  Data sizes .

When this has been cloned, the  Clone?  checkbox will be ticked. This doesn’t mean that its original or its clone(s) still share data with it, merely that at one time they did. Unless they’re also hard linked, clones should show a  Ref count  of 1.

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