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 and later, Precize also provides information about whether a file is a sparse file, whether it has ever been cloned or is itself a clone, and whether it is purgeable. 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.

When this file is purgeable, the Purge checkbox will be ticked.

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