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Format

Binary Property List

Summary

Name
Binary Property List
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/984
Description
In the OS X, iOS, NeXTSTEP, and GNUstep programming frameworks, property list files store serialized objects. It is the standard way to save and load data between the internal representation within the objects defined in an Objective-C program and disk files, in order to store program settings and other data. This is the binary version but there is also an XML version of the format.
File extensions
plist, nib, aae, iMovieProj, ezdraw
Source
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Relationships

Has lower priority than

Internal signatures

Binary Property List

Note
bplist00

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
62706C6973743030
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Added in V89

    Release date
    8 March 2017

    Binary Property List

    Binary Property List: Full entry added.