How To Reinstall Property List Editor For XCode 4

Author: erics, Posted July 25th, 2012 at 7:15:43pm

As of XCode 4, Apple no longer supplies the Property List Editor application with its developer tools. Here is how to get it back:

Step 1

Get your copy of Snow Leopard, either on disc or in disk image format. Insert disk or mount disk image.

Step 2

Download Pacifist, an application which allows you to extract files from package installers.

Step 3

Open Pacifist, and select the XCode.mpkg package in the Optional Installs folder on the disk.

Now, what you need to do is extract two files. The first one is the Property List Editor.app application bundle. It’s under “Contents of Developer Tools”, in:

Applications/Utilities/Property List Editor.app

The second one is also under Contents of Developer Tools:

Library/PrivateFrameworks/PlistEdit.framework

Step 4

Once you’ve extracted them to your desktop, move the Property List Editor application into the following folder:

/Developer/Applications/Utilities/

And then move the PlistEdit.framework file into:

/Developer/Library/PrivateFrameworks/

Fin.

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