Type: com.apple.metadata
Subtypes: kMDItemDownloadedDate
Serialisation: none
Data type: binary property list with binary content. Contains an NSArray with a single member, an NSDate.
Example: <62706c69 73743030 a1013341 bc3b079b 60ee5b08 0a000000 00000001 01000000 00000000 02000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 13> «bplist00¡ 3A¼; `î[
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macOS: Sierra, High Sierra
System use: only found in /Library, and rare there
App use: rare
Document use: more common
Other usage: none

Purpose: contains a date-time stamp showing when the file was downloaded
Information:
The date and time are given in binary form, and apparently followed by flags. These are undocumented.

As with all xattrs, this ‘sticky’ information can follow files around for a long time.

Tools: xattred, xattr

Links:

Original page: 2017-12-18
Last modified: 2017-12-30