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can't edit plist as xml in textedit, give binary representation when opened

This worked before now it's not working. I opened plist in TextEdit and shows a binary format?

Solution

  • This is because apple has changed the format now. I don't know exactly when but you can change it.

    Open Terminal and use below commands

    plutil -convert xml1 my.plist

    Edit your my.plist in TextEdit and save it. Then convert my.plist file to binary as below

    plutil -convert binary1 my.plist

    Where xml1 and binary1 are the format, read more about plutil