Property list (.plist) editor for windows

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November 27th, 2008 by Mojtaba

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As you know, a lot of iPhone files (System preferences files) are in the .PLIST (Property list) format! In some cases (Such as enabling Emoji, Correcting Country code, etc!) we need to edit these files!

There are several applications for opening/editing these files on MAC OS X (Xcode itself contains a property list editor)!

But till today I can’t find any application that able to do this for windows users! Today I find a little software that can easily open and edit these files (Both Binary format & XML format!) in windows!

You can download it directly here (File size: 20KB, Zip format).

Other softwares: Notepad++, EditPadLite

Stay Tuned for more updates & news

18 Responses

Bored writes:
December 28th, 2010 at 11:21 AM

On windows, to get files without jailbreaking your iDevice, use iPhone Explorer

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- Mojtaba writes:
  January 14th, 2011 at 11:15 AM
  
  @Bored: Thanks for your help. Can you write something about how to use iPhone Explorer?
  
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benb writes:
July 3rd, 2010 at 12:07 AM

I had the CoreFoundation error too – just use the built-in plist converter;

“C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support\plutil.exe”

Its a command line util, but its easy enough to use. binary1 is the original .plist format, and xml1 is an editable format (just xml) that you can tweak in Notepad.

Note all of your command switches have to come before the filename.

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Jakroval writes:
June 22nd, 2010 at 9:08 PM

@g_tutner

I finally got pledit.exe to work with your instruction. Thank you very much!

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g_tutner writes:
June 3rd, 2010 at 2:35 PM

it seems there is a problem with non english windows in particular. so this is how i got it working:

1) make a copy of the dir ‘C:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\Apple\’ in ‘C:\Program Files\Common Files\’

2) create this dir: ‘C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\’

3) copy ‘pledit.exe’ to ‘C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support\’ and start it from there

lgg

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- HL writes:
  December 30th, 2010 at 9:12 AM
  
  Hi lgg,
  Thanks for this help. it worked for me.
  HL
  
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soch writes:
May 8th, 2010 at 9:35 AM

doesn’t work with safari installed or if I open a .plist file with “open with” option.

waste of time.

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Dwayne Beesley writes:
December 23rd, 2009 at 4:33 PM

Interesting read. There is currently quite a lot of information around this subject around and about on the net and some are most defintely better than others. You have caught the detail here just right which makes for a refreshing change – thanks.

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matt tracker writes:
August 9th, 2009 at 7:21 AM

Nope doesn’t work with safari installed either

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Modifier l’ordre des icônes de l’iPhone sous Excel « SD blog writes:
June 25th, 2009 at 10:00 PM

[...] un Mac mais en installant un programme capable de transformer les fichiers plist, exemple pledit ou plist [...]

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Zamiruddin Faisal writes:
May 31st, 2009 at 7:56 AM

Awesome. erectly what i was looking for. thanks.

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Justin writes:
May 19th, 2009 at 5:05 AM

This is cool, how do you get the plist files on and off the iPhone. do you have to jailbreak as i would prefer not to and i have heard this is possible

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Mr Ikti writes:
April 9th, 2009 at 6:27 AM

How can i download ? plist editor plz help me .:(

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david writes:
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:54 PM

It seems CoreFoundation.dll is a part of safari
so just try to download and install it from apple website

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Sin Gularity writes:
January 29th, 2009 at 8:46 AM

Howdy …

This is just the tool i was looking for … but unfortunately it throws “CoreFoundation init failed!”.

Seems as if some core stubs are not available!

Greets,

Sin

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hanna writes:
January 12th, 2009 at 6:21 PM

Does not work on my machine.
Throws “CoreFoundation init failed!”
What’s up?

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Matthew Braun writes:
January 6th, 2009 at 1:18 AM

nice!! works just as long as u save the plist on to your computer b4 u open it .. i edited myn .. nice.. working perfictly .. thanks

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nerick writes:
July 13th, 2009 at 2:20 AM

did anyone ever tell you how to get the files back and fourth to the iphone? please email and let me know ibepimpru@aol.com

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