Re: ERR=Attribute not found (on Mac client)

Martin Simmons <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:47:41 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bacula.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> On Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:48:37 +0200, Andrea Venturoli said:
> 
> > check with: xattr -l"$filename"
> 
> This gives "xattr: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted".
> 
> However "ls -lah@ $filename" gives:
> 	com.apple.quarantine	  -1B

I suspect ls also gets an error and doesn't check, so it just prints -1
(instead of the size of the attribute).

Maybe the filesystem has some corruption?

I don't know if fsck (or something like it) is possible on macOS.  You might
need to boot into Recovery Mode.

__Martin