Apple has introduced a new .plist file format in 10.4. You'll notice that you can no longer just edit a .plist file in TextEdit or other text editors. The reason for this is that the files are now binary rather than raw XML.

Luckily for us, there is a command line utility called plutil that can convert back and forth between the two formats. You can convert the .plist file you want to edit to XML format, edit it in TextEdit, then convert back to binary for use. To convert a binary .plist file to XML format for editing, type this in the Terminal:
plutil -convert xml1 some_file.plist
To convert an XML .plist file to binary for use:
plutil -convert binary1 some_other_file.plist
Replace some_file.plist and some_other_file.plist with the actual filenames, obviously...


plutil -convert xml1 filename.plist : 바이너리를 xml로 만들어 줍니다.

plutil -convert binary1 filename.plist : xml을 바이너리로 만들어 줍니다.

변환시 파일 자체가 바뀌니 백업은 미리 해놓으면 좋습니다.

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