Viewing Mac Drive and File Properties

When you view properties for a Mac-formatted drive or a file or folder on a Mac-formatted drive, you can view the Mac-specific properties of that drive, file or folder from its shortcut menu.

You can also display the Mac properties of files in the Windows Explorer Details view.

To view the properties of a Mac drive, file or folder:

1 Right-click the element whose properties you want to view, and choose Properties from the shortcut menu.

2 In the Properties window, click the HFS+ Disk Support tab.

3 Click OK to close the Properties window.

The following information is displayed for the element, where applicable:

Mac name

Displays the file’s true Mac name as it exists on disk. This may be different from the name reported by Windows due to the fact that certain Mac filenames automatically have Windows file extensions added to them, and the necessity of changing some Mac file names slightly to conform to Windows file-naming rules.

Data size

Displays the size of the file's data fork, where cross-platform data is usually stored.

Resource size

Displays the size of the file's resource fork, where additional data, usually Mac-specific, is stored.

Backed up

Displays the date that the file was last backed up, if ever.

File type and File creator

For files, displays the four-character codes stored by Mac OS that indicate the type of data contained in the file and the software that created the file.

Files on volume and Folders on volume

For drives, displays the numbers of files and folders on the drive.

Advanced

Opens a window with additional advanced attributes of the disk, folder or file. Only the Name Locked attribute can be changed in this window. The other attributes are shown only for your reference.