.apple files after succesful recovery

[47peejay]

I used Photorec to succesfully recover mainly video files from a 1Tb HDD that had been accidentally formatted by my child. In the 5 folders Photorec created are a number of files with ending .apple. Can anyone explain what these files are and if they can be safely deleted. Thanks

[cgrenier]

They are metadata stored in AppleSingle Format and AppleDouble Format
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleSingl ... le_formats
They are considered useless by most.