Re: Best way to handle loss of ResourceFork

["Dennis Birch" <dennisbirch@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:25 AM, jda <jda@his.com> wrote:

> Basically I would like a way to determine a simple boolean setting of a file
> without having to open it and parse its contents. The ResourceFork was
> perfect for this. I'd appreciate any thoughts on the replacements I've come
> up with, or any I haven't considered.

But even with a ResourceFork you ARE opening the file to read the
resource. It's opening it in a different way than reading the data
fork, but it's still opening it.

I would consider adding your boolean to a proprietary file header in
the data fork. You could also change to an XML format, but that sounds
like overkill for the needs you have described.

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