Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 259

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 259. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Thinly dispersed line of people saves space by excluding empty data.

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sparse file

Thinly dispersed (sparse) line of people (a single file) saves space by excluding empty data (what a sparse file does).

2: Identical copy of document initially takes no space.

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clone file

Identical copy (clone) of document (file) initially takes no space (when first created, it takes no additional space, as it shares data with the original file).

3: Stub of its former self lacks extent until it’s materialised.

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dataless file

Stub of its former self (what it is) lacks extent (it has no file extents while it’s dataless) until it’s materialised (when it’s downloaded, it regains its data).

The common factor

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These are all special file types in APFS.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.