Hectic with SIP problems in High Sierra, the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, then iCloud Drive’s strange stripping of extended attributes.
Category Archive: Macs
Don’t use iCloud Drive to copy docs between Sierra and High Sierra, as they may well lose metadata in the process. Bug or feature?
Browse, cut/copy/paste, edit content, export as text, and more for any xattr attached to a folder or file in HFS+ and APFS, Sierra and High Sierra.
How to attach a metadata flag to a file or folder, to bring it under the protection of SIP.
Can now edit the content of existing xattrs, and create completely new ones, with arbitrary content.
Tweaked to see and open any file or folder, even inside bundles, and to fix a display glitch with binary property lists.
When you can’t remove an app which you installed just a few minutes ago, you know there’s something wrong. Here’s the solution, and why this is bad security.
Now supports cut, copy and paste of any xattr between files or folders. Also adds quarantine flags, and reveals full content of most xattrs.
When to use as, as!, or as?, how to handle Any, and when you need to use var instead of let even though you don’t change the value.
2017 was never going to be easy, and Apple had a lot of accidents over its closing months. It delivered a lot of new products, and with them a lot of new problems.
The Eclectic Light Company 