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TrID mentions (21)

• Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification

  Assuming that I've not misunderstood, how does this compare to things like: TrID [0]?? Apart from being open source. [0] https://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• How to get images from. img file

  If not, try using something like trid to detect what the file is, and other tools like ffmpeg or imagemagick to see if they can read it. Source: 12 months ago

• How to convert or watch a .vi video file?

  .vi is not a file extension commonly associated with any common video format. The closest I can find is that it's an Arcsoft VideoImpression Project file, which may or may not contain actual video data. This is their website but from what I can find the VideoImpression product is discontinued. You can use TrID on the file to see what it thinks the file type is based on its magic number. Source: about 1 year ago

• What is a .3 file extension?

  You can try to use some tools that detect what extenstion file should have based on the content of the file, if the file is small, you can try https://www.checkfiletype.com/, otherwise you can try this tool: https://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html. Source: about 1 year ago

• Looking for a better 'file' command

  If file isn’t working (extensible as mentioned) you could try TRiD. Source: over 1 year ago

Hirens BootCD mentions (2)

• Ask HN: Do you still use DVD?

  I still put DVD and/or Blu-ray drives in all PCs I personally build for myself and my family. This is due to the fact that we transferred dozens of old captured 16 mm and 8 mm film reels, scanned photo prints, negatives and slides as well as Video8, Hi8, Digital8 and VHS videocassettes to M-DISC DVD and some to Blu-ray. While I uploaded most of this content to Flickr and Google Photos while they were offering... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• My computer reset my user profile name and password. Now I can’t login. What do I do?

  This is what I normally do when needing to change a user account password at work. Http://hirensbootcd.org/ and create a bootable USB drive with it, set it as the boot device in the bios and get and use the NTPasswordEdit tool that should be in a folder on the desktop. Should be able to select the user account on windows and change the password to what you would like. Source: over 1 year ago