can't edit plist as xml in textedit, give binary representation when opened

Question

This worked before now it's not working. I opened plist in TextEdit and shows a binary format?

Answer 1

This is because apple has changed the format now. I don't know exactly when but you can change it.

Open Terminal and use below commands

plutil -convert xml1 my.plist

Edit your my.plist in TextEdit and save it. Then convert my.plist file to binary as below

plutil -convert binary1 my.plist

Where xml1 and binary1 are the format, read more about plutil