A traditional ‘resource fork’ containing resource structures, lumped into a binary xattr. Still commonly used for image previews, and found in many older files.
macOS
Standard layout and content template for xattr type pages here.
With completely new code, a new interface, optional authentication, even a new Help book and icon, LockRattler 4 should be more robust and useful.
Marks a folder or file as being protected by SIP. Widespread among kernel extensions, and Apple’s bundled apps.
This UTF-8 string contains the Gatekeeper score, the system time of download, downloading agent, and the event UUID. Can force a full Gatekeeper check.
Indicates the encoding used for the contents of the text file, e.g. UTF-8, Macintosh, Windows-1252. Used in many text documents.
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.
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