Updates to two utilities to create and edit metadata in extended attributes, which work better with Spotlight search. Now compatible with Catalina.
Category Archive: xattr
Documentation of extended attributes (xattrs) in macOS.
Second of two, here looking at quarantine of documents, what it means, how it occurs. Much more common than apps, but mysterious.
Have you noticed quarantine flags appearing on movies and PDFs which have never been downloaded? Here’s a possible explanation.
Due to a sudden torrent of comment spam, I have had to block adding comments to articles older […]
I have returned controls over the posting of comments to normal: you are again very welcome to post […]
For some weeks, this blog has been targeted increasingly by one specific source of comment spam. I am […]
What this site does and doesn’t collect about you.
Adds display of the total size of xattrs, total data fork size, and their sum in its window.
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.
My screenshots are now tagged with metadata supporting Spotlight search, and Hazel uses that to sort them into folders automatically.
The Eclectic Light Company 