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author | Rhet Turnbull <rturnbull@gmail.com> | 2022-11-17 06:38:28 -0800 |
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committer | Rhet Turnbull <rturnbull@gmail.com> | 2022-11-17 06:38:28 -0800 |
commit | addbdf0d7e3a5c338fde15373a63418c39e471d3 (patch) | |
tree | ccee357db9e4252cb1c287c8719ea0b9284b88fe | |
parent | c1cda54172775a0b726fe40a737533d2d3bfe956 (diff) | |
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Updated README to add reference to osxmetadata
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@@ -20,3 +20,10 @@ and Linux 2.6+. Experimental support is included for Solaris and FreeBSD. Note: On Linux, custom xattr keys need to be prefixed with the `user` namespace, ie: `user.your_attr`. + +Note: If you need to read or write Spotlight metadata attributes on macOS, +see osxmetadata_ which provides a native macOS means to do so without +directly manipulating extended attributes. osxmetadata also provides access +to other macOS metadata attributes and extended attributes via xattr. + +.. _osxmetadata: https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxmetadata |