This blog entry has been moved to O'Reilly's new iPhone community website, digitalmedia.oreilly.com/iphone/.
Parts 1 and 2 of this mini-series introduced you to mdbackup files. When backing up your iPhone or iPod touch, iTunes stores files in mdbackup property lists. The name mdbackup comes from mobile device, the name of the private framework that's responsible for handling the iPhone backups. Today, you'll discover how to extract file data from the backups.
Mdbackup files are property lists and are created in a compressed binary format. These files are just as readable from your Foundation Cocoa programs as any other property list. The key to recovering data lies in de-serializing the data stored in that property list dictionary... Continue reading this entry.
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How can i do this on a Windows Machine, I just want to be able to read my phone numbers, and contact names normally.
Thank you for your work, it is a huge help!