Xattrs

Lord I hate these things

So here’s a little droplet, in AppleScript, to remove them

Yes I thought about writing it in something else
But the AppleScript is 213 K and just about everything else would be quite a bit larger

Some, many megabytes

The ENTIRE text is as follows

-- This droplet processes files dropped onto the applet 
on open these_items
  repeat with i from 1 to the count of these_items
    set this_item to item i of these_items
    set the item_info to info for this_item
    if folder of the item_info is true then
      process_folder(this_item)
    else
      try
        set this_extension to the name extension of item_info
      on error
        set this_extension to ""
      end try
      try
        set this_filetype to the file type of item_info
      on error
        set this_filetype to ""
      end try
      try
        set this_typeID to the type identifier of item_info
      on error
        set this_typeID to ""
      end try
      if (folder of the item_info is false) and (package folder of the item_info is false) and (alias of the item_info is false) then
        process_file(this_item)
      end if
    end if
  end repeat
end open

-- this sub-routine processes folders 
on process_folder(this_folder)
  set these_items to list folder this_folder without invisibles
  repeat with i from 1 to the count of these_items
    set this_item to alias ((this_folder as Unicode text) & (item i of these_items))
    set the item_info to info for this_item
    if folder of the item_info is true then
      process_folder(this_item)
    else
      try
        set this_extension to the name extension of item_info
      on error
        set this_extension to ""
      end try
      try
        set this_filetype to the file type of item_info
      on error
        set this_filetype to ""
      end try
      try
        set this_typeID to the type identifier of item_info
      on error
        set this_typeID to ""
      end try
      if (folder of the item_info is false) and (package folder of the item_info is false) and (alias of the item_info is false) then
        process_file(this_item)
      end if
    end if
  end repeat
end process_folder

-- this sub-routine processes files 
on process_file(this_item)
  -- NOTE that during execution, the variable this_item contains a file reference in alias format to the item passed into this sub-routine
  -- FILE PROCESSING STATEMENTS GO HERE
  set thePathToFile to POSIX path of this_item
  log thePathToFile
  
  set theresult to do shell script "/usr/bin/xattr \"" & thePathToFile & "\"" as text
  --  log theresult
  
  set theParagraphs to paragraphs of theresult
  repeat with i from 1 to length of theParagraphs
    set theCurrentListItem to item i of theParagraphs
    -- Process the current list item
    -- log " line" & (i as text) & " = [" & theCurrentListItem & "]"
    
    do shell script "/usr/bin/xattr -d " & theCurrentListItem & " \"" & thePathToFile & "\""
    
  end repeat
  
end process_file