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My computer was stolen on Saturday and I had done something extremely stupid: failed to back up my phonegap project for a few months.

All i have left is an .ipa file. I was hoping there is someway to extract the WWW folder from this file. It seems plausible since nothing in that folder gets compiled and i can view the contents with IExplorer http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/.

I have tried using IDA Pro and managed to view the .js files as binary and rescue a few lines, but no more then that. To be honest IDA Pro is way above my head.

Any help would be great.

Thanks in advance, guys.

Nathan

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Try this method, hopefully you won't get into lots of obstacles because you are the one who built the project so you should know what is what

Steps

  1. Get hold of an phonegap iPhone App. I have one, which I had created a long time back.
  2. So go to – http://www.phonegap.com/apps
  3. Select iPhone or iPad
  4. Pick an app for which you want code (Let me pick my application)
  5. Get the link to the app and open with iTunes
  6. Download the app. It will save the app in your Apps Folder
  7. Right Click on the app and select “Show in Finder”
  8. You will see the .ipa file. TicTacToe 1.1.ipa
  9. Rename it to TicTacToe 1.1.zip

  10. Unzip the file and you will find something like this

    iTunesArtwork
iTunesMetadata.plist
Payload\TicTacToe
  11. Right Click on TicTacToe and select “Show Package Contents”
  12. There will be mostly a folder in it www which will have the entire HTML, JS and CSS files or whatever the person used.
  13. Tada…. There you go thats all….
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  • Thanks. i found that after unzipping the ipa file, a computer running osX refused to let me se the files inside. But i opened the same file on my Windows computer and i could see all the files perfectly. – nathajamal Feb 19 '13 at 15:03