The writeup linked in a comment there was very helpful as well. The end result for me as displayed in Notepad++ is I was able to find a Notepad++ bplist plugin for Notepad++ however. (These do seem to work on the Mac I borrowed to test it.) I'm on Windows though, and neither suggestion helps. The other Apple suggestion in a comment above is to run plutil -convert xml1 TheDownloadedFile, and it modifies the file in-place from the binary version to an XML version.
He doesn't explain how to do it, but other sites claim you can just open it up in TextMate and it knows how to display it. Note that it starts with bplist, indicating it's a binary plist for use in the Apple ecosystem. Copy the data field ( YnBs.AAI0=), decode it, and download the resulting file. Use because we're going to want to save the result as it itself is binary and converters that just show text results won't be able to render it appropriately.
Whitespace and line breaks don't seem to matter. We're going to base64 decode the data value. VFpganBydXh6g4WIAAAAAAAAAQEAAAAAAAAAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAI0= Y2FsZVVlcG9jaBABEQEMEQJYEADUDA0ODxUWEhMQA圎C4SI+AAAACAsWGyMoKi03PEJL YW5nZdIJCgsUVXN0YXJ0WGR1cmF0aW9u1AwNDg8QERITVWZsYWdzVXZhbHVlWXRpbWVz YnBsaXN0MDDRAQJac2xvd01vdGlvbtIDBAUXV3JlZ2lvbnNUcmF0ZaEG0QcIWXRpbWVS Start with his adjustmentData info: adjustmentData This then gives him a binary plist, which he converts to intelligible XML related to slow motion settings on the photo. He takes the contents of the data attribute and runs it through a base64 decoder. The most useful answer I found came from. It might help some, but there's something more that I don't understand.
Unfortunately this is not a full answer yet. LeMYfuRxmtqWa0EROeBAi9yTqw2BupNp7Nhfh5sLzRFd4V0acTxRzm/FC+YhuOZieEli GN9bV/lh8b7Tpnzt7J4CKJivnx9yyADb9joD8o9FQxbf6KBHLc+gNcjDdmnQu3eQW1j+ĭJGtGIigvs7/3CaHe0MlKA4dyVZi1q6Og48THtNaSVBrh2YTfDv1/e6SmOrRYhACFZoo YiyREdQZLEam8EK6bhjUfb5cZBftU5fcgFosVo8Z+KDJMbL2DtSqz6DywSJ/UIhJmmdw However I see that most times (apparently not always) there is such a file even when they seem to carry the same data (which seems to indicate that no change was applied to the picture.ĭoes anyone know how to decode this adjustmentData value?īZBNT8JAEIb/y5wrKaBg9mbwIBdJNNGD8TC003bNfjS7U5CQ/nenW0o4eNt95+t9nzNY AAE files are supposed to describe the changes that were applied to a certain picture.