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What & why

Adds an opt-in Exclude Mac-specific metadata setting for compression and archive saves. It leaves out .DS_Store, AppleDouble metadata, resource forks and Finder metadata while preserving ordinary files with sidecar-like names. The default continues preserving metadata.

A nested, opt-in Windows-compatible filenames setting rejects unsupported names and case/file-folder collisions before writing, listing the affected entries without renaming anything. It checks new, kept and renamed entries. This is a filename check, not a guarantee about Windows codecs, symbolic links or the destination's total path length.

Addresses the metadata-setting portion of #236. This PR deliberately does not add the proposed “Compress for Windows” Finder action or automatic normalization, so it does not automatically close the broader issue. No versions or vendored submodules changed.

How it was verified

  • 587 tests in 139 suites passed (123.963 seconds). Tests cover metadata on/off, resource forks, Finder tags, hidden flags, custom folder icons, encrypted ZIP/7z, Save/Save As, sidecar-lookalike user files, filename conflicts (including generated sidecar paths), and original/destination preservation on rejection.
  • Unsigned MacPacker Release and MacPacker Store Release Store builds succeeded locally. Architecture guard: 15 Mach-O files checked, every one has arm64 and x86_64 slices.
  • Manual UI verification in an isolated local build: the child option is initially off/disabled, enabling its parent makes it available, and Save As lists all four conflicting names below without creating an output archive. The installed app was not replaced.
  • Verification output.
Before After
General settings before General settings after

Save As refuses incompatible and colliding names

The string catalog is committed as generated by Xcode tooling, including locale-tag normalization and formatting; no translations were hand-edited there.

Review follow-up: added translator context to the Windows filename setting and now checks generated Mac metadata paths for case-insensitive collisions before writing. Both review threads are resolved.

Changelog

The first changelog block is 1.0.0, already tagged as v1.0.0. Per AGENTS.md, a new block is needed; no version is chosen here. The contributor approved the English title before these translations were prepared. Full item for the next block:

{
  "type": "feat",
  "title": {
    "en": "Exclude Mac-specific metadata",
    "de": "Mac-spezifische Metadaten ausschließen",
    "es-MX": "Excluir metadatos específicos de Mac",
    "fa": "حذف فراداده‌های مخصوص Mac",
    "fr": "Exclure les métadonnées propres au Mac",
    "it": "Escludi i metadati specifici del Mac",
    "ja": "Mac固有のメタデータを除外",
    "ko": "Mac 전용 메타데이터 제외",
    "nl": "Mac-specifieke metadata uitsluiten",
    "pl": "Pomijanie metadanych specyficznych dla Maca",
    "pt-BR": "Excluir metadados específicos do Mac",
    "ru": "Исключение метаданных Mac",
    "tr": "Mac’e özgü meta verileri hariç tut",
    "uk": "Виключення метаданих Mac",
    "vi": "Loại bỏ siêu dữ liệu dành riêng cho Mac",
    "zh-Hans": "排除 Mac 专属元数据"
  },
  "issues": [
    "236"
  ]
}

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  • Verification evidence is included above
  • Changelog item supplied above under the tagged-release exception in AGENTS.md
  • AI involvement disclosed: Codex was the primary code author. Gustavo Lima reviewed and approved the behavior and evidence; automated and manual UI checks described above were performed with Codex assistance.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added options to exclude Mac-specific metadata and require Windows-compatible filenames when creating archives.
    • Metadata exclusion omits Mac-specific metadata, including .DS_Store files and AppleDouble sidecars; hidden flags and custom folder icons aren’t preserved.
    • When filename compatibility is enabled, saving stops if names are invalid or conflicting. Incompatible files aren’t renamed.
    • Settings explain which Mac metadata is excluded and note that some Finder features aren’t preserved.

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  • MacPacker/Features/Settings/GeneralSettingsView.swift
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Walkthrough

Archive settings now include options to exclude Mac metadata and require Windows-compatible filenames. Archive writes apply saved preferences, filter verified metadata entries, and validate resolved names before writing.

Changes

Archive file preferences

Layer / File(s) Summary
Settings and compression options
MacPacker/Features/Settings/GeneralSettingsView.swift, Modules/Sources/Core/AppStorageKeys.swift, Modules/Sources/Core/ArchiveSaver.swift, Modules/Sources/Core/Settings/ArchiveSaveOptions.swift, Modules/Sources/Swift7zip/CompressionOptions.swift, Modules/Tests/CoreTests/WindowsArchiveNamesTests.swift
The settings view and compression options add metadata-exclusion and Windows-compatible-name preferences. ArchiveSaver applies saved preferences to its options.
Mac metadata exclusion
Modules/Sources/Swift7zip/SevenZipWriter.swift, Modules/Tests/CoreTests/MacMetadataOptionsTests.swift
When metadata exclusion is enabled, archive writing filters .DS_Store entries and verified AppleDouble sidecars. Tests cover metadata handling during archive creation, extraction, and rewrites.
Windows filename validation
Modules/Sources/Swift7zip/SevenZipWriter.swift, Modules/Sources/Swift7zip/WindowsArchiveNames.swift, Modules/Tests/CoreTests/WindowsArchiveNamesTests.swift
Archive writing checks resolved names, including kept and moved entries. The validator reports invalid names and path collisions; tests cover rejection and compatible renaming.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant GeneralSettingsView
  participant UserDefaults
  participant ArchiveSaver
  participant ArchiveSaveOptions
  participant SevenZipWriter
  User->>GeneralSettingsView: Set archive preferences
  GeneralSettingsView->>UserDefaults: Persist preference values
  ArchiveSaver->>ArchiveSaveOptions: Apply saved file preferences
  ArchiveSaveOptions->>UserDefaults: Read preference values
  ArchiveSaver->>SevenZipWriter: Provide compression options for archive writing
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to ccad0

The change adds two opt-in archive settings and leaves default behavior unchanged. No concrete merge-blocking issue was identified in the supplied review material.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ccad0

Filename rejection occurs before destination writing, and both new settings default to off. However, metadata exclusion can fully decompress archive contents during inspection without a resource budget or cancellation callback. A crafted archive could therefore consume substantial temporary disk space and processing time when saved with this option enabled.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Metadata exclusion introduces unbounded archive extraction before writing, even for an in-place update that does not rebuild. Sidecar-shaped entries trigger complete extraction of their associated target and companions into per-candidate scratch directories, retained until the write exits. The scan supplies no progress or cancellation callback and runs before Windows-name validation. An attacker supplying highly compressed large entries can therefore induce temporary-volume exhaustion or prolonged processing when a user saves with metadata exclusion enabled. The setting is default-off and ordinary completion or failure removes scratch data, but those controls do not bound peak resource use.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The identified resource-exhaustion path requires an attacker-controlled archive and a user save with metadata exclusion enabled. Its directly supported scope is local processing and the temporary-storage volume accessible to the application, potentially affecting other workloads sharing that volume. No elevated privilege or cross-service authority is needed for this path.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A large, highly compressed entry paired with a sidecar-shaped name can trigger complete target extraction solely for metadata classification. Name-based companion indexing does not require valid AppleDouble contents before this work starts. Repeated candidates can accumulate extracted data in separate directories, and the classifier reads its small header only after extraction completes. This supports the retained resource-exhaustion concern without establishing an exploit-tested vulnerability.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The optional filename gate covers source-derived and caller-supplied names before output writing. Metadata folding also requires an extraction-owned target and rejects a symbolic-link target using lstat. These controls address namespace and metadata ownership, but do not impose a decompression resource budget.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Scratch cleanup is deferred until writeArchive exits. The new metadata scan passes nil progress callbacks, while native extraction aborts through its progress callback. Consequently, that callback-based interruption mechanism is unavailable during metadata identification, even to a caller supplying a cancellable write-progress handler.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bound metadata inspection by actual decompressed bytes and cumulative temporary storage, connect it to cancellation, and release each candidate’s scratch directory promptly. Prefer bounded sidecar inspection that avoids materializing the associated file’s contents where feasible.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @MacPacker/Features/Settings/GeneralSettingsView.swift:
- Around line 132-134: Add translator context at the call site for both strings
in the Windows-compatible filenames Toggle: use Text(_:comment:) for the label
and provide a localization comment for the help text, while preserving the
existing binding and accessibility identifier.

Review comments at @Modules/Sources/Swift7zip/SevenZipWriter.swift:
- Around line 153-168: Update the Windows-name preflight in the writer flow
around resolveDiff and validateWindowsNames to include paths generated by
metadataSidecars when metadata is enabled. Preserve the validated names before
sourceArchive closes, combine them with the generated sidecar paths, and reject
duplicate or case-insensitive collisions before performUpdate.

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Tested the metadata-exclusion option against Finder-created ZIPs. In-place saves still left some __MACOSX directory entries and folder metadata, and explicitly added AppleDouble files could survive compression.

I've opened a focused follow-up that fixes those cases without removing ordinary ._ files or orphan sidecars. It also preserves the missing/wrong-password errors for encrypted folder metadata. The focused native checks and raw ZIP comparisons passed.

Follow-up: athousanddetails#1

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