Re: mdbackup binary plist files
Re: mdbackup binary plist files
- Subject: Re: mdbackup binary plist files
- From: Omar Qazi <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:21:18 -0700
On Jul 16, 2008, at 8:15 PM, Ryan Chapman wrote:
Hopefully there is someone here who knows something about binary plist
files. When an iPhone's firmware is upgraded in iTunes, a framework
called
MobileSync creates a backup of the iPhone's data files. The backup is
stored in .mdbackup files, in ~/Library/Application
Support/MobileSync/<targetId>/
I've found that the .mdbackup files are Apple binary plists (the
magic is
bplist00, followed by 0xD4), however any attempts to read the files
give the
error "Conversion of data failed. The file is not UTF-8, or in the
encoding
specified in XML header if XML."
The plists are encoded in base-64. You can use this to decode them:
http://code.google.com/p/iphone-backup-decoder/
(Found via Craig Hockenberry on Twitter)
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