Open Plist File Windows

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In Mac OSX, there are property list files (.plist). You can modify them with Xcode.

Given a .plist file, is there a reasonable way to modify them like Xcode does in Windows 7?

Plist Pad is a simple property list file editor for Windows (Linux and OSX builds coming soon!). Plist Pad is currently just an alpha build of something that I’ve hoped would materialize on the internet for some time now. As far as I know, there is no good Plist editor for Windows that looks and acts like the built-in OSX Plist file editor. Mac OS X 10.2 introduced a new format where property list files are stored as binary files. Starting with Mac OS X 10.4, this is the default format for preference files. Plist Editor Pro is a tool that can help you to reading and edit both XML format and binary format plist file under Windows system. Why plist Editor Pro?

Mount ntfs mac fstab. I have found http://www.icopybot.com/plist-editor.htm, but it doesn't seem to parse the file correctly (for starters, each entry in an array doesn't appear with the index number - it is blank, when it should be 0, 1, 2, ..). Plus it is difficult to edit entries anyway.

Of course I can just use Notepad++ and modify the code, but I'd rather have a visual editor like Xcode.

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I use plist editor pro when messing around with iOS apps. It has a nice visual key editor as well as a pure XML view and is free, unlike many others. It's very simple and I think that's why it's so underrated, even though it completely fulfills its purpose as what is basically a jazzed up text editor.

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Other way is using the PUTIL.EXE from your itunes directory installation. The file is here: C:Program FilesCommon FilesAppleApple Application Support

plutil -convert xml1 com.apple.springboard.plist

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If you are going to be doing a bit of plist editing on Windows you can buy Plistinator, which handles both binary and XML versions of plist files. There's a video and screenshots on the site explaining its features and how it compares to 'Plist Editor Pro'. The array elements are numbered and the order is preserved as per the original file.

Disclaimer: I'm the developer of Plistinator.

Update: (ref @Journeyman-Geek comment) Plistinator as far as I know should parse the file correctly. The file back end is a clean-room implementation based on Apple's Open Source C code, and its extensively unit tested.

I've found from users that sometimes third party non-apple programs (like Unity, Qt Creator, dozens of others) generate plist files which are non-standard. Also plist files can become corrupted by crashing or misbehaving programs. So 'given a plist file' doesn't mean that its standards compliant.

Certainly if the file is OK, and has an array in it Plistinator will number the rows and preserve the order. I have some things to say about iCopyBot's product in the How-To video on the plistinator site, which I won't repeat here. As far as I can tell Plistinator is the only Plist editor for Windows that provides a complete working solution.

Plistinator is designed to work like Xcode, but has some improvements over it. For example string fields can be edited in a large text box - so in that regard at least its easy to edit entries.

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What's the best application to open and edit a plist file ?

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A PList file, like Mankoff said, is just a specially formatted XML file, so you can actually edit and create them in a program like TextEdit.

Because of the specific nature of PLists to Development, however, using a special program like Xcode or Property List Editor becomes a much more fruitful endeavor. This is because it not only automatically formats the XML code for you, but it will actually translate the key identifiers and layers into readable words, and also for some values it will provide a drop-down menu to fill in the correct responses. Especially when dealing with iPhone plists, when multiple runtime variables can be set using the Plist, easily creating new fields and knowing what to put in them makes it so much easier.

You can get bot Xcode and PList Editor from the Apple Developer website http://developer.apple.com for free by downloading the latest Xcode release.

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If the plist file is in the XML format, you can edit it in any text editor like TextEdit. If the plist file is in the binary format, you can convert it to XML first by running:

If you want to go back to binary format after editing:

If you have Xcode 4.3 or later, you can use it to edit property lists in a graphical editor like this:

Xcode 4.2 and earlier came with a separate application for editing property lists (/Developer/Applications/Utilities/Property List Editor.app/).

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A fine program like TextWrangler can edit binary .plist files without first converting them using Terminal. Simply open the file like you would any other (i.e. drag-and-drop on the program icon, or the File open dialog, or Open With in the Finder or..)

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Since Apple got rid of the GUI Property List Editor, Xcode is the best free option if you want to be sure of the result.

There are some gotcha's using a generic code editor to edit plist files. Since dictionaries use entries like

You can create a valid XML file that is not a valid plist file, for example:

Open

If you're willing to go commercial, Plistinator will edit both binary and XML plist files.

Full-disclosure: I'm the author of Plistinator and the $12.99 it costs pays for my ramen and rent.

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On a Terminal window, you can use PlistBuddy, available at /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy.

PlistBuddy can read and modify values inside of a plist, either interactively or directly on the command line.

However, PlistBuddy is not a GUI editor.

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Open Plist File Windows

I have used PlistEdit Pro for macOS and found it to be useful and comprehensively feature rich.

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