And then there's Manifest.plist.
It tracks if the backup is encrypted.
You're going to notice on many tools, when
you go to load a backup file, it wants
you to point it to Manifest.
It needs to know immediately, am I encrypted?
If you think back to when I showed you the Finder slides,
if you let the keychain on the Mac
keep that encryption setting that you set,
this would show IsEncryptedFalse,
and that's why your tools would fail because the keychain
doesn't exist with the backup.
So here, we could see Applications.
We can see the name of the device.
We also get a time stamp.
This time stamp right here is that clicking and unclicking
of that checkbox that says encrypt backup.
That is what that time stamp means.
It's the last time the box was checked or unchecked
for encryption to be set.
It may not have anything to do with the backup.
So when I first plugged in my iPhone in that demo earlier
in this section, and we saw that it was already encrypted,
my Manifest.plist would be completely
different than my Status.plist.
So I don't know when I did that.
Maybe I did that months ago.
So you can see months of difference in that time stamp.
So as a review, Info.plist--
information about the device.
The time stamp is ultimately when
the device is done backing up, and it eventually
caches to the computer.
Status.plist-- the time stamp is your best time stamp
on when the backup was created if it completes successfully.
Manifest.plist tracks the encryption status.
And that time stamp is when that box was last check
to encrypt or decrypt the data.