yes I want to reemphasize coldtea&#x27;s point. These resource forks are part of the core platform and the tools that need to use them have the code to be able to manipulate them.<p>Anyone who&#x27;s ever worked with Macs - including software writers, tool writers, developers, know about resource forks - and it&#x27;s fine because major tools have been rewritten to be resource fork aware.<p>Nothing&#x27;s really gone wrong in the sense of reality and while there may be hiccups, you don&#x27;t really see users actually complain about resource forks.<p>It&#x27;s the hypothetical case where &quot;people actively start storing critical data ...&quot; etc. In this case, those people haven&#x27;t done their homework about the mac platform. Like the Original Post of this HN thread - this person clearly hasn&#x27;t read the docs re: resource forks and is hacking around, assuming that the mac should be like any of the platforms they&#x27;ve used before, and complaining when it is different.<p>There are also extensive - majorly detailed documentation from Apple themselves re how resource forks are used and in which circumstances:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;?q=%22resource%20fork%22" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;?q=%22resource%20fork%22</a><p>That gives a ton of hits. Just read the docs. Really.<p>Again, I pull out the old Windows example moving from FAT to FAT32<p>8.3 filenames -&gt; Long filenames contains a backwards compatible way to truncate long filenames back down to 8.3. So what if someone stores critical information in the long filename that is suddenly lost when round-tripping through an OS that doesn&#x27;t understand long file names? SHOCK!! HORROR! Reality is no one does that. End of story.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Long_filename" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Long_filename</a><p>Platforms are different! just learn what&#x27;s different so that you don&#x27;t get caught unaware.