diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index f13a4acd..82686cff 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
 		<jarbundler dir="${dir.dist}" name="${title}" version="${version}" build="${svn.revision}" icon="${dir.installer}/appbundle/icon.icns" bundleid="net.sourceforge.filebot" jar="${dir.dist}/appbundle/FileBot.jar" stubfile="${dir.installer}/appbundle/JavaApplicationStub" workingdirectory="$APP_PACKAGE/Contents/Resources/Java" mainclass="net.sourceforge.filebot.Main" jvmversion="1.6+" vmoptions="-Xmx256m">
 			<javaproperty name="application.deployment" value="app" />
 			<javaproperty name="unixfs" value="false" />
-			<javaproperty name="useExtendedFileAttributes" value="false" />
+			<javaproperty name="useExtendedFileAttributes" value="true" />
 			<javaproperty name="sun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout" value="10000" />
 			<javaproperty name="sun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout" value="60000" />
 		</jarbundler>
diff --git a/installer/appbundle/filebot b/installer/appbundle/filebot
index 6ec58161..86e75f58 100644
--- a/installer/appbundle/filebot
+++ b/installer/appbundle/filebot
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ while [ -h "$SOURCE" ] ; do SOURCE="$(readlink "$SOURCE")"; done
 dir_bin="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" && pwd )"
 
 dir_app=$dir_bin/../Resources/Java
-java -Xmx256m -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dunixfs=false -DuseExtendedFileAttributes=false -Dapplication.deployment=app "-Djna.library.path=$dir_app" "-Djava.library.path=$dir_app" -Dsun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout=5000 -Dsun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout=25000 -jar "$dir_app/FileBot.jar" "$@"
+java -Xmx256m -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dunixfs=false -DuseExtendedFileAttributes=true -Dapplication.deployment=app "-Djna.library.path=$dir_app" "-Djava.library.path=$dir_app" -Dsun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout=5000 -Dsun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout=25000 -jar "$dir_app/FileBot.jar" "$@"