[DominikHoffmann]

After restoring my home folder from a Time Machine backup, which resided on a Mac OS X Server box in the form of a sparsebundle, there are now various problems with the operations of several applications.

I have a hunch that this might be because of the Extended Attributes I copied over incorrectly. How can I remove all extended attributes from my entire home folder? Is there any reason not to do this? I understand that Time Machine and Spotlight both use these, but I wouldn't mind starting from scratch with both.

On the BrT blog I found a piece of code that purports to do what I need, but, alas, it isn't working in my situation:

Code:
for i in $(ls -Rl@ | grep '^      ' | awk '{print $1}' | sort -u); \
do echo echo Removing $i ... >&2;  \
find . | xargs xattr -d $i 2>/dev/null ; done

where the spaces after the caret ("^") are generated by Ctrl-V, followed by TAB.

Do any of you know of an alternative?

[besson3c]

What is the output of that command? It looks like the general approach should work...

[DominikHoffmann]

Over at the BrT blog a thread, which led me to this solution:

Code:
for i in $(ls -Rl@ | grep '^  ' | awk '{print $1}' | sort -u);    do echo echo Removing $i ... >&2;  find . -print0 | xargs -0t xattr -d $i 2>/dev/null ; done

Here again the spaces after the caret ("^") are generated by Ctrl-V, followed by TAB.

Thanks to all who showed interest!