Apple Archive

File Format
Name	Apple Archive
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving Apple Archive ; ; ;
Extension(s)	.aar
Wikidata ID	Q123458255
Released	2020

An Apple Archive is a proprietary compressed archive format, based on LZFSE, available on recent MacOS systems.^[1]^[2] Archived files can be made via command line^[3] or included "Archive Utility".^[4]

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AAR archive files begin with the hex values "70627A65"

References

[0] â†‘ https://eclecticlight.co/2020/11/24/compress-and-decompress-files-using-applearchive/

[1] â†‘ https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applearchive

[2] â†‘ https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/aa.1.html

[3] â†‘ https://eclecticlight.co/2022/05/10/inside-apple-archive-more-than-a-compression-format/

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