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Why are Plists stored as binary?

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Post by binarysoul » Mon, May 11, 2015, 8:37 PM UTC

Re: Why are Plists stored as binary?

Post by mpweiher » Mon, May 11, 2015, 8:49 PM UTC

The binary format is faster and more compact.

Use `plutil` to convert to and from ASCII.

Post by binarysoul » Mon, May 11, 2015, 10:24 PM UTC

mpweiher wrote: post #2

The binary format is faster and more compact. Use `plutil` to convert to and from ASCII.

Thanks for the tip. I didn't know about that utility