Not Ignoring plist File Types

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khomco
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Not Ignoring plist File Types

#1 Post by khomco »

I am creating a disk image from a folder on a MacOS machine using the hdiutil command utility. The by-product from this seems to be a bunch of "*.plist" files that I really just want to ignore. However, when I deselect "plist" from the File Options menu, I still get results that have the ".plist" extension. Is Photorec failing to ignore this selection or might these files be picked up because they look like some other file type?

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Re: Not Ignoring plist File Types

#2 Post by cgrenier »

There are 2 different plist file format
- a binary format: plist - Apple binary property list that you have already disabled
- a xml (text) file format: tx? - Text files with header: rtf,xml,xhtml,mbox/imm,pm,ram,reg,sh,slk,stp,jad,url

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