However, PLIST Editor comes in at a much lower price point (US$3.99 on the Mac AppStore). Its feature set covers all the necessities. Its feature set covers all the necessities. It can open property list files with file extensions other than.plist (for those pkginfo or recipe files you want to edit) and supports drag and drop and undo and even. IPodRobot plist Editor for Windows is a software that can edit both of XML format and Binary format Mac OS property list file (.plist) under Windows system.
Preference and configuration files in macOS use property lists (plists) to specify the attributes, or properties, of an app or process. An example is the preferences plist for the Finder in the Library/Preferences/ folder of a user’s home folder. The file is named com.apple.finder.plist. The default naming convention for a plist includes the distributor’s reverse DNS name prepended to the app or process name, followed by a .plist extension.
To edit property lists, use the defaults
command-line tool. The defaults
command is a powerful tool and, when you know the specific key and value in a property list you want to change, the defaults
tool is very efficient.
The defaults
tool works directly with the macOS preferences subsystem and is used by many apps in macOS to manage preferences and other settings. It can be built into shell scripts and lets you access preferences in the multiple domains that exist on a given computer.
Determine the names of the appropriate property list, key, and values. For example, the name for the Dock’s property list is com.apple.Dock.plist
. (When invoking the defaults command, omit the .plist extension.)
Enter the values following the defaults
command:
Restart the app or process, if necessary.
A simple way to do this is to use Activity Monitor to select the appropriate process, then click Quit Process. For this example, you would choose the process named Dock.
You can also edit property list files in Xcode, which provides a built-in property list editor. To use Xcode, double-click a .plist file in the Finder.
If you don’t have Xcode installed on your Mac, download it from the Mac App Store.
PlistEdit Pro is the most advanced property list and JSON editor written for macOS.
Mac and iOS developers must edit a variety of property list and JSON files while developing their applications. PlistEdit Pro makes editing these files easier by providing an intuitive and powerful interface. In addition to being able to copy and paste or drag and drop property list data around, PlistEdit Pro also offers powerful find and replace functionality, as well as structure definitions which provide easy access to commonly used keys in various standard property list files.
Power users can also benefit from PlistEdit Pro's preferences browser, which allows easy access to property lists used by macOS to store settings on your system. Browse through your preferences, or search an entire folder of plist files at once for a particular key or value. PlistEdit Pro also enables automation of tasks involving property lists, via its Applescript support and its pledit command line tool.
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