Re: Forcing plist preferences file to be saved as text?
Re: Forcing plist preferences file to be saved as text?
- Subject: Re: Forcing plist preferences file to be saved as text?
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:12:36 -0700
On Apr 22, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Dave Keck wrote:
Out of curiosity, why would you use the less efficient and larger
XML format ?
Human-readability I would imagine.
'defaults read' or 'plutil' will do for that. The files are stored in
binary because it's more efficient. This was a performance
optimization added in 10.5, and I was told that it really did make a
measurable difference.
—Jens_______________________________________________
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