Is it possible for two different files to appear the same yet have different fileprints?
A fileprint is based on a file’s digital representation on a storage medium—the series of 1’s and 0’s—rather than on how a human perceives its contents or how an application presents that file. The text of the novel “Pride and Prejudice” stored in an Apple Pages and an Adobe PDF file will result in two files with different fileprints because of the different file formats used. Likewise, two music files in iTunes can sound exactly the same to you, but the files may still have different fileprints. With some applications, opening and saving a file without making any edits may still result in a file with a different fileprint because of changes in the storage representation. Copying (and moving) files with the Finder and most applications that transfer a file over the network will result in representation-identical files with the same fileprint.
