Alternative Data Streams (ADS) on NTFS

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An alternate data stream (ADS) is a feature of Windows New Technology File System NTFS that contains metadata for locating a specific file by author or title. Alternative Data Stream support was added to the NTFS file system(Windows NT,2000,XP,7,8) to help support Macintosh Hierarchical File System (HFS) which uses resource forks to store icons and other information… Read more »