Desktop Services Store

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

Revision as of 06:06, 28 March 2023

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

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

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 '''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 ==
 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 ==
 * [[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://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://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]]