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Remove capitalisation from Sources in iTunes 7
Authored by: jjardoino on Sep 14, '06 09:54:21AM

I think it's because there's no conversion needed. TextEdit and BBEdit open Localizable.strings and InfoPlist.strings (in the same folder) because they are pure text files...

I tried to open com.apple.garageband.plist with TextEdit and BBEdit, and the binary code is displayed on both.

I opened these three files in HexEdit and I saw the difference between the third file and the two others.

So I don't think that TextEdit is able to convert binary files.

But it opens iTunes' Localizable.strings, and it's because Localizable.strings is in text format. :-)



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Remove capitalisation from Sources in iTunes 7
Authored by: thecube on Sep 14, '06 12:05:43PM

On my G4 Localizable.strings is definitely in a binary plist format. TextEdit opens the file - but displays garbage as one would expect.

Seems strange that this file should get installed as a text plist on some systems and a binary on others... Maybe it's a post install optimization for slower machines?



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Remove capitalisation from Sources in iTunes 7
Authored by: Dragon76 on Sep 14, '06 08:23:52PM

iBook G4 here and Localizable.strings was pure text.



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Remove capitalisation from Sources in iTunes 7
Authored by: cparnot on Sep 19, '06 03:47:42PM

The system indeed decides to switch to binary/text format depending on some unknown criteria. This is true of all plist prefs files, and was new with Tiger.


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