Download Remove Mac OS Junk for Mac - Batch remove resource forks & DS

Remove Mac OS Junk 1.0

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Remove Mac OS Junk is a tool for batch removing resource forks, DS_Stores and more.

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Anonymous reviewed on 24 Nov 2005

Even for free it's crap!

- No drag 'n drop support
- No app icon
- No documentation
- No download

Don't waste your time folks unless you like it the hard way!

[Version 1.0]

Anonymous reviewed on 05 Feb 2005

This is not "social malware," as one reviewer claimed. This is a very handy and fast program for removing the mac-specific files from a directory, and removing resources forks. As the warning on the program clearly states, it can be very dangerous if you use it on the wrong files!

The fact that it is a large application is irrelevant--although it is ridiculous that it is a 1.6 MB application, it is fast and does the job, and it has features that would require some work to replicate on the command line.

Normally, you would never use this program. BUT there are many cases when you want to remove resource forks from files (for example, I discovered that many photo-printing stations will not properly read JPEGs with Mac resource forks, but they will work fine if you delete the resource fork), or if you are burning a CD for non-Mac users, and don't want all the ".DS_Store" files around.

[Version 1.0]

Anonymous reviewed on 22 Dec 2004

A nice concept. Both sides in earlier reviews have good points: resource are *generally* junk in modern applications; but, on the other hand, the Finder, for example, and even DVD Player, are both still Carbon and have some legacy .rsrc (resource fork) files in their bundles. Thus to use this on your entire hard drive would be sheer folly; but to use this on a folder to remove resource fork image previews and such would not be. The program has its use, although I do believe that it could be somewhat smaller. The 'gzip' command-line tool, for example, strips resource forks when one runs it on a file or directory; a small AppleScript droplet that sends any dropped files to gzip for compression, then immediate decompression, would work fine, as would using the command-line 'ditto' copying tool, which also (according to its man page) has the capability of not copying resource forks. Not sure about 'cp'--but it may also be similar.

[Version 1.0]

Anonymous reviewed on 25 Aug 2004

A abad idea to use on any file (actually, a really bad idea) but apart from that if you (for example) want to publish a website, or need to maintain a FileSharing Site where Windows-User also have access to (and the files are prooven not to need Resource Forks) this is really usefull.

[Version 1.0]

Anonymous reviewed on 25 Aug 2004

Why is this a 530k download?! The program is a whopping 1.8MB when decompressed, my best guess is that this is more REALbasic-script-kiddy-ware. Go learn Cocoa and come back when you can actually code.

[Version 1.0]

Anonymous reviewed on 24 Aug 2004

DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE. IT'S SOCIAL MALWARE.

Macupdate.com: please be so kind as to remove this irresponsible submission from your database.

[Version 1.0]

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