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authorRhet Turnbull <rturnbull@gmail.com>2022-11-17 06:38:28 -0800
committerRhet Turnbull <rturnbull@gmail.com>2022-11-17 06:38:28 -0800
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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