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Why are Plists stored as binary?
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binarysoul
on May 11, 2015
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mpweiher
on May 11, 2015
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The binary format is faster and more compact.
Use `plutil` to convert to and from ASCII.
binarysoul
on May 11, 2015
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Thanks for the tip. I didn't know about that utility
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Use `plutil` to convert to and from ASCII.