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Comments on No. 88 of 93 · Objective-See (Patrick Wardle) · edition of Sunday 25 October 2026

Persisting via a Finder Sync

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Objective-See's 2016 post shows that macOS Finder Sync extensions, which are meant to add overlays and context-menu items to Finder, can be registered automatically by the system's pkd daemon when their host app first runs and then enabled with the pluginkit utility.

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