General account of xattrs, their storage, types, tools for working with them, and common problems.
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One of the great hidden features in macOS, xattrs are rarely used by anyone outside Apple, largely because they are so poorly supported by functions calls and tools.
A simple and concise example of a page from the documentation which we, as a community, could readily produce for macOS. Fancy giving us a hand?
They’re responsible for determining Gatekeeper’s checks, contain Finder information, and much more. With a new free tool too.
If you wanted to mess someone’s Mac up, you could go into their system files and change things around when they were out at lunch.
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