Strip metadata from files in Snow Leopard
I found the command "mdls" which will show the metadata but I can't see how to delete it. I want to get rid of the comments "kMDItemFinderComment", "kMDItemWhereFroms" from my files. Is there a way to do this? I think you're looking for the xattr command, available in Terminal: xattr -pr com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment / that will print all the finder comments for all files on your boot volume. To delete, use the -d switch: xattr -dr com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment / You should test this out on a single file before running it in bulk. usage: xattr [-l] [-r] [-v] [-x] file [file