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Old 10-28-2024, 11:32 AM   #13
calibre-user
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
calibre does not use/support extended file attributes. They are extremely brittle, platform specific, filesystem specific, dont survive roundtripping via most comman archive formats etc. You can embed metadata inside the file and presumably your search tool can be configured to filter based on that metadata.
Hi Kovid, do you think Calibre developers & maintainers could possibly consider improving the "Embed metadata" feature on the Mac OS by having it write Calibre tags to files' Mac OS native tags instead of writing them to the "kMDItemKeywords" XMP header key?
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