Apple’s attitude to document metadata remains ambivalent. But macOS does offer good support for extended attributes to pass through iCloud, if you know how to access it.
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Does using xattr flags disrupt Spotlight indexing, and how are those flags respected using different methods of copying a file?
So how can apps and users preserve file metadata using these xattr flags? Part of the solution is straightforward, but there’s a major limitation.
For the last six years, extended attributes have had flags to determine how they’re handled when copied. Here are the details, and how this affects iCloud.
This evening’s update to what will almost certainly be the last version of Mojave, apart from security updates […]
Are iCloud Drive, CDs and DVDs, and partitions on the same storage really suitable places for you to back your Mac up?
Now lets you change the font size in its text views, with settings independent for each window type, and saved to its preferences files.
Apple has very recently announced that all support for Back to My Mac will cease by 1 July […]
Recommended for improved functions in its text views, integrity checking each time it opens, and direct link to its product page in the Help menu.
How to make different types of copy/clone/link/alias in the Finder and command line, their properties and uses, summarised in two table.
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