Apple Archive

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File Format
Name Apple Archive
Ontology
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]

AppleArchive.png

File Information

AAR archive files by default using LZFSE begin with the hex values "70627A65", but also can use the algorithm's: lzma "70627A78", lz4 "70627A34", zlib "70627A7A", and raw "41413031".

References

  1. https://eclecticlight.co/2020/11/24/compress-and-decompress-files-using-applearchive/
  2. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applearchive
  3. https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/aa.1.html
  4. https://eclecticlight.co/2022/05/10/inside-apple-archive-more-than-a-compression-format/
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