Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Click here to start participating now! Also, check out the New User Guide.
.dat files!
Name: yippee Date: December 23, 2000 at 15:09:18 Pacific
Name: Dmitry Date: December 23, 2000 at 15:39:59 Pacific
Reply:
.dat files are internal computer files. You do not need to read them. But you can try to use QuickView.
0
Response Number 2
Name: Derek Date: December 23, 2000 at 17:08:13 Pacific
Reply:
If not, copy the .dat file to a spare folder and change the extension to .txt which can often reveal useful info among the garbage.
0
Response Number 3
Name: bwbarbieri Date: December 23, 2000 at 17:12:16 Pacific
Reply:
In general, they are data files, very often in ASCII. They are used by many different software packages (wotsit.com lists 5 pages with over 10 per page).
0
Response Number 4
Name: Kurt Stuhler Date: December 23, 2000 at 17:21:13 Pacific
Reply:
Dat files can be several things. As bwbarbieri mentioned they can be ascii files or data files for your computer. they are also Word Perfect merge files and sometimes MPEG movie files use the dat extention.
0
Response Number 5
Name: Bryan Date: December 23, 2000 at 19:40:31 Pacific
Reply:
They often arrive via Outlook email in "rich text" format. These can not be read by everyone's email. If this is the case then ask the sender to resend it in "Plain text" format.
0
Response Number 6
Name: Preston Date: December 23, 2000 at 22:40:13 Pacific
Reply:
The important *.dat files are in the Windows directory but are hidden:
attrib *.dat -s -h -r
Then you can see them: dir *.dat
0
Response Number 7
Name: PNKumar Date: January 25, 2001 at 01:23:46 Pacific
Reply:
Is there any utility to convert .dat file to a .txt file?
Summary: I stupidly deleted two large volume date files from the window folder thinking they belonged to another program I was trying to get rid of. I only get dos command area to work with now. I did the scan...
Summary: hi all, can anyone tell me what are the .dat files used for , and what does dat leters stand for , and what program used to open them ?? thanks alot guys ..... EHAB ...
Summary: I have downloaded and run Delindex with no problems - thanks for that by the way! Now, I have discovered yet another rather large index.dat file in c:\\Windows\Profiles\User Name\UserData. Is there a...
0 
Anyone has Win98 SE wsock...
