BTM Converter

Extract text from Background items and maps (BTM)

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Drop or upload your .BTM file

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How to extract text from your BTM file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BTM file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert BTM to another file type

To convert BTM Items and maps to another format, you need Xcode or other System software.

Convert a file to BTM

To convert other file formats to the "Configuration & Mapping Files" file type, you need software like Xcode or a similar tool.

About BTM files

The .BTM extension is shared by two distinct computing environments, creating frequent confusion. Most commonly today, it refers to macOS Background Task Management data. These are system files (often formatted as binary property lists or plists) that track applications allowed to run in the background. Users often encounter them when troubleshooting persistent "Background Items Added" notifications in macOS Ventura or Sonoma. Because these are binary system files, they are unreadable in standard text editors, making it difficult to identify which software is triggering the alerts.

Alternatively, in enterprise environments, a .BTM file is a BizTalk Map created by Microsoft BizTalk Server. These are XML-based transformation files used to map data between different schema formats (e.g., converting a purchase order to an invoice). While they are technically text-based, they contain complex XSLT logic that is best viewed within Visual Studio.

Common Conversion Goals:

For macOS Users: Convert the binary .btm (via dumping tools) to XML or TXT to audit authorized background processes and identify malware or bloatware.
For Developers: Convert BizTalk maps to standard XSLT or XML to migrate logic to modern platforms like Azure Logic Apps without requiring a legacy server instance.

Convert.Guru analyzes your BTM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted BMP, BMT, LT, MASTER and SYNCED files.

FAQ

If you want to convert BTM file to EXE, MSI, APP, DMG, DEB, RPM, PKG, RUN, SH, BAT, CMD or COM, you can use Xcode or similar software from the "Background Task Configuration" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert JAR, APP, SCR, IPA, COM, AAB, PS1, DMG, VBS, EXE, XAPK or MSI files to BTM, try Xcode or another comparable tool in the "Background Task Configuration" category.

The BTM Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our BTM converter.