Why these .plist. files in my iOS app's directory `/AppData/Library/Preferences`

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Created Dec ’16

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Our company's app uses NSUserDefaults to do what a real database does. I know it's a wrong way to store data, but we have no time to change to SQLite. Now, a problem is that the app is very huge sometimes in iPhone 6/6plus. I download the app data from the device and I found that there're a lot of *.plist.* files with *.plist. and the unexpected file is very huge. Then I opened one of them in vim, and I found that they all have `bplist00ß` string in the begining.

The files are like:

// in AppData/Library/Preference/

com.508.ikSmart.plist
com.508.ikSmart.plist.PtXCvnb
com.508.ikSmart.plist.0TObUei
com.508.ikSmart.plist.UaJEgue
com.508.ikSmart.plist.PCAqIeo

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Dec ’16

If you see bplist, that means the file is in binary plist format. You can convert it to xml using the plutil command line tool:

plutil -convert xml1 <FilePath>

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Answer 2

dev.weic OP

Dec ’16

Thank you. But these files are not I want. How to avoid them in my app?

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Why these *.plist.* files in my iOS app's directory `/AppData/Library/Preferences`

Why these .plist. files in my iOS app's directory `/AppData/Library/Preferences`