Originally Posted By: ryck
Does this look like a bad thing? If so, I'd just as soon not have it.

Nothing to worry about... just looks like very disposable debris (from a sloppy update program or something).



Originally Posted By: Virtual1
but I don't think that's a "normal" plist?

I agree... it's some sort of "freeze dried" Cocoa (code), tucked into a file with a .plist extension added. That's probably why DiskWarrior (and Drive Genius) seem to think it's a corrupt plist... because it's not really a plist. [which does however make it somewhat suspicious, imo.]

After some digging, i found a very similar header structure in (at least a few) objects.nib files:

xxd -l 16 /Applications/iSync.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/iSyncMain.nib/objects.nib
0000000: 040b 7374 7265 616d 7479 7065 6481 e803 ..streamtyped...

Only the last byte differs (out of the first 16).

We could probably get more out of it using the strings command (to save space in the forum window).

Last edited by Hal Itosis; 03/23/10 06:16 AM.