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  • Thanks for the detailed and helpful answer. Can you please clarify why adding a tag with exiftool removes the extended attribute? Is there any logical explanation? Commented Mar 3, 2023 at 21:09
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    @texnic It depends on what exact exiftool command line you've used. Usually using exiftool will copy the contents of your original file, add its modifications, and save that out to essentially a new file (which might have the same name as the old one, and the old one being renamed to _original). As exiftool does not explicitly copy over the extended attributes by default, you won't see them on the newly created file. Commented Mar 7, 2023 at 8:42