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		mpweiher on May 11, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are Plists stored as binary? The binary format is faster and more compact. Use `plutil` to convert to and from ASCII.

binarysoul on May 11, 2015 [–]

Thanks for the tip. I didn't know about that utility

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