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I used to place my iTunes’s media folder on a NAS accessed through AFP and, as you may know, the OS also placed several .AppleDouble files on it.

Now, my NAS isn’t working as expected and the only ways that I have to access/recover my songs—and other data stored on it—are:

  • rsync them through SSH (this seems to work except for some files).
  • Disassembly/unbrick the NAS and try to access the Ext4 filesystem with a SATA-to-USB adapter; borrowed to replace the firmware from a Live (linux) distro (it doesn't solved the problem).
  • Pay for a professional data recovery service.

Now the actual problem:

I have used rsync in order to copy the Media folder to an external hard drive whose file system is HFS+; now how can I merge the .AppleDouble files within the original files?

Or should I get rid of them without any problem?

Giacomo1968
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dezzeus
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See this answer to another question https://superuser.com/a/1173246. Basically, you need the FixupResourceForks utility which is a standard part of MacOS (although not on the normal PATH — it's in /System/Library/CoreServices/.)

Neil Mayhew
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If you used the rsync option that preserves extended attributes, that is the -E option on the Apple supplied version of rsync, then the files will be joined automatically on the HFS+ filesystem.

fd0
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