They may not cause many problems, but xattrs are both very useful and extensively used by macOS and third-party products. It’s time to discover more, and document them.
Category Archive: Macs
Should you switch or upgrade to MarsEdit 4? Having used it heavily for the last few days to manage nearly 3,000 articles here, I think I have a clear answer.
For the moment, until Apple pushes a future update to bring it to version 1.28 at least, your […]
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Even a lean and simple High Sierra system has many xattrs of many types, and plenty of files still have ‘resource forks’. Plus details of some important xattrs used by Apple’s system files.
Gatekeeper’s data files are updated to version 134, and MRT may also be undergoing update too.
They’re almost invisible, but surprisingly widely used. xattrs come in very many different types, and contain valuable information. Here are results from analysing most of a Sierra startup volume.
As expected, the macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 update contains a great deal more than the three relatively minor […]
Apple has released version 10.13.2 of High Sierra, which is now available as an update from the App […]
Adds a lot more diagnostic information, including full listings of all Keychains folders, including that for iCloud Keychain.
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