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Category Archive: xattr

Documentation of extended attributes (xattrs) in macOS.

Inspect and control extended attributes with xattred 1.4

New version of this GUI utility for inspecting and editing extended attributes, for High Sierra and later.

May 18, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates, xattr

How to tag documents with metadata that works in search

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Updates to two utilities to create and edit metadata in extended attributes, which work better with Spotlight search. Now compatible with Catalina.

August 19, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates, xattr

🎗 Quarantine: Documents

Second of two, here looking at quarantine of documents, what it means, how it occurs. Much more common than apps, but mysterious.

April 26, 2019 Macs, Technology, xattr

Why all those quarantine flags?

Have you noticed quarantine flags appearing on movies and PDFs which have never been downloaded? Here’s a possible explanation.

April 13, 2019 Macs, Technology, xattr

Comments on older articles disabled

Due to a sudden torrent of comment spam, I have had to block adding comments to articles older […]

January 31, 2019 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology, xattr

Comment back to normal

I have returned controls over the posting of comments to normal: you are again very welcome to post […]

October 9, 2018 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology, xattr

Comments temporarily restricted to newer articles

For some weeks, this blog has been targeted increasingly by one specific source of comment spam. I am […]

October 8, 2018 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology, xattr

Your personal data and this blog: GDPR and related information

What this site does and doesn’t collect about you.

May 28, 2018 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology, xattr

xattred now shows data and xattr sizes

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Adds display of the total size of xattrs, total data fork size, and their sum in its window.

February 21, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

Where are all those extended attributes?

I claimed (from a guess) that there might be 0.8 GB of xattrs in my Home folder. I was wildly wrong: there are actually over 3.8 GB. Here’s how xattrs are distributed.

February 14, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

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