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TBH I'm really not that into closed file formats, having used software in the past with proprietary data formats, which then becomes obselete or no longer maintained and having to try to get my data back out. As far as iPad handling PDFs goes, I'd advise you to get GoodReader - it does...

Thanks twerppoet, it wasn't documented (that I could find) so I thought it worthwhile writing down what I was doing. And to anyone in general I can better document the process for actually getting stuff out of the encrypted back up file without using iTunes - which includes any application...

For the heck of it - here's the answer in perl code (using stock vanilla perl): first getting the difference between the 2 epochs: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Time::Local; # timelocal() coverts human readable dates into the sum of the date in seconds # though it expects the date to...

I've been digging about and come up with the answer to my own question - Cocoa's internal date format is : So basically this is the OSX (and therefor iOS) epoch, while the Unix epoch starts on 1 January, 1970, at 00:00.

Thanks for the welcome and info Fleur

I hope this is the right forum section for this, be kind mods if it's not :). I've been using Notes app for around 2 years and want to bulk export the stored notes for inclusion in a database backend for a web based CMS. The simplest method I could find, that didn't involve being forced to use...

Hi there I'm a long time user of Mac products, with a reasonable sprinkling of experience with Unix style networking. see you on the threads