Hmm, yes. It seems to be problematic, since the site has this to say about running Mono (Mac):
In order to use the iPhone Backup Extractor on OS X, users must have the Mono framework and X11 libraries installed. Users of OS X 10.5 will have the X11 libraries already installed by default.
Once Mono is installed, users should open a Terminal window and navigate to the directory with the unzipped backup extractor (
cd ~/Desktop
), then run
mono iPhoneBackupExtractor.exe
. This will run the extractor using Mono.
Some OS X users may find the extractor reports an error when run, complaining about X11 libraries. If this error appears users are advised to create a symlink from
/usr/X11
to
/usr/X11R6
. This can be done by running the following command in the console:
sudo ln -s /usr/X11 /usr/X11R6
If you are using Mono 1.2.4 you may encounter an error stating Mono.Data.SQLite.dll cannot be found or similar. This would seem to be a bug in Mono 1.2.4 which can be worked around by copying the file /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/2.6.4/lib/mono/gac/Mono.Data.Sqlite /2.0.0.0__0738eb9f132ed756/Mono.Data.Sqlite.dll into the folder where you unzipped the iPhone Backup Extractor.
There are instructions to uninstall Mono on OS X here. Unfortunately, we cannot offer support for questions on Mono."
If I were doing it, I would probably solve it even using this software which has a known bug. But it's now up to you if you want to continue. I really wish I had something more helpful to say. 😕