My end goal here is to cd to a directory in powershell and then list all the alternate data stream files, then output all their content to a CSV. I currently have the first two parts scripted: cd...

Is there a possibility to unblock a file that is downloaded from the internet from within a c# program. Surfing the internet I have learned, that the information is written in an alternative strea...

From version 8.1 until Mountain Lion (10.8), the OS supported a concept called "Named Forks". Named forks are equivalent to "Alternate Data Streams" in Windows. There is a ton o...

I want to block (not unblock) a file with Powershell. I want to cause Windows to believe that a file on disk was downloaded from the internet, or whatever other scenario exists such that files beco...

In this question I have searched for a simple solution to unblock files. Thanks to all the comments and answer, I have found a simple solution by PInvoking DeleteFile. It works, but because I've n...

I'm trying to have my Java application read all the data in a given path. So files, directories, metadata etc. This also includes one weird thing NTFS has called Alternate Data Stream (ADS). Appar...

I'd like to be able to use an alternate data stream to store some synchronization information for files that are referenced in a database application I'm building. However, every approach I've fou...

How can I read and modify "NTFS Alternate Data Streams" using .NET? It seems there is no native .NET support for it. Which Win32 API's would I use? Also, how would I use them, as I ...

Today I have seen this weird magic NTFS system supports: each file can have multiple data streams. Basically one could have a file a.txt of 0b size but there can be any number of bytes hidden in a ...

How does Mercurial handle Alternate Data Streams (in the NTFS file system)? If it can't handle that, is there a DCVS that does? EDIT: When I change version with update, what happens to the ADS ? I...

I would like to store some Application-Related Metadata for Files, and NTFS Alternate Data Streams (AltDS) would allow me to store this metadata directly on the files rather than in a separate data...

On Windows NTFS there is a nice but mostly unused feature called "Alternate Data Streams" (ADS) which I recently used in a hobby-dev project. On Mac HFS+ there is also a similarly nice but mostly...