Desktop Services Store

From Just Solve the File Format Problem
(Difference between revisions)
Jump to: navigation, search
(add another ds_store article)
(link fixing, separate software section)
 
(One intermediate revision by one user not shown)
Line 6: Line 6:
 
}}
 
}}
 
'''Desktop Services Store''' ('''.DS_Store''') is a file format used by [[Mac OS X]], and the Finder app, to store information about a directory.
 
'''Desktop Services Store''' ('''.DS_Store''') is a file format used by [[Mac OS X]], and the Finder app, to store information about a directory.
 +
  
 
== Identification ==
 
== Identification ==
 
Files apparently begin with bytes {{magic|00 00 00 01}}, followed by ASCII "{{magic|Bud1}}".
 
Files apparently begin with bytes {{magic|00 00 00 01}}, followed by ASCII "{{magic|Bud1}}".
 +
 +
== Software ==
 +
* [http://www.hhhh.org/src/hg/dsstore/ Mac::Finder::DSStore] Perl module
 +
* [https://github.com/gehaxelt/ds_store Go library]
 +
* [https://github.com/gehaxelt/Python-dsstore Python library]
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
  
 
* [[Wikipedia:.DS_Store]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:.DS_Store]]
* [http://www.hhhh.org/src/hg/dsstore/ Mac::Finder::DSStore] Perl module
 
 
* [https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Mac-Finder-DSStore/DSStoreFormat.pod Specification from Mac::Finder::DSStore]
 
* [https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Mac-Finder-DSStore/DSStoreFormat.pod Specification from Mac::Finder::DSStore]
 
* [https://0day.work/parsing-the-ds_store-file-format/ Parsing the .DS_Store file format]
 
* [https://0day.work/parsing-the-ds_store-file-format/ Parsing the .DS_Store file format]
 
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/DS_Store_File_Format Reverse-engineered specification]
 
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/DS_Store_File_Format Reverse-engineered specification]
 
* [https://eclecticlight.co/2021/11/27/explainer-ds_store-files/ Explainer: .DS_Store files]
 
* [https://eclecticlight.co/2021/11/27/explainer-ds_store-files/ Explainer: .DS_Store files]
* [https://0day.work/parsing-the-ds_store-file-format/
 
Parsing the .DS_Store file format]
 
  
 
[[Category:Filesystem]]
 
[[Category:Filesystem]]

Latest revision as of 06:06, 28 March 2023

File Format
Name Desktop Services Store
Ontology
Extension(s) .DS_Store
PRONOM fmt/394

Desktop Services Store (.DS_Store) is a file format used by Mac OS X, and the Finder app, to store information about a directory.


[edit] Identification

Files apparently begin with bytes 00 00 00 01, followed by ASCII "Bud1".

[edit] Software

[edit] External links

Personal tools
Namespaces

Variants
Actions
Navigation
Toolbox