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Editing/amending a bplist (binary plist)

Is there a way to reliably edit/amend a bplist used by the system? (Specifically .GlobalPreferences.plist) (I have User, not Developer.)

Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Oct 27, 2008 11:46 AM

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Posted on Oct 27, 2008 11:51 AM

KDS-KDS wrote:
Is there a way to reliably edit/amend a bplist used by the system? (Specifically .GlobalPreferences.plist) (I have User, not Developer.)

Yes, if you have plutil. I don't remember if this is part of the Developer Tools, or part of the system. Look for /usr/bin/plutil.
plutil -convert xml1 /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist

Now you can edit it. When finished,
plutil -convert binary1 /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
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Oct 27, 2008 11:51 AM in response to KDS-KDS

KDS-KDS wrote:
Is there a way to reliably edit/amend a bplist used by the system? (Specifically .GlobalPreferences.plist) (I have User, not Developer.)

Yes, if you have plutil. I don't remember if this is part of the Developer Tools, or part of the system. Look for /usr/bin/plutil.
plutil -convert xml1 /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist

Now you can edit it. When finished,
plutil -convert binary1 /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist

Editing/amending a bplist (binary plist)

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