FILExt Reviews, Info & Comments

FILExt

Open, view and convert files online

FILExt is one of the oldest and most respected collections of file formats and file extensions. Over the past 20 years, more than 50 million users have found the right information and tools to open any file on their computer or smartphone. Our knowledge gathered during this period is regularly reviewed and updated. Tom Simondi first provided this information in 2000 as a free online resource for the Internet community.

FILExt is committed to helping users to identify, access, open, view or convert unknown files. To this end we provide FILExt free to all computers and smartphone users. FILExt has been mentioned in many books over the years. It is used and recommended by experts around the world as a source of information about file extensions, including: from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, PC World, Lifehacker, Oracle and Microsoft.

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2021-06-22

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Ronald B.

over 2 years ago

Great online tool to look into files
Better than Apache Tika's File Analyzer. The Filext online viewer shows any text found in a uploaded files. thousands of file types are previewed.

🏁 Competitors: FileInfo.com, Convertio

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how do you open or use .bin files as in to edit the contents or something similar to that
Use https://filext.com to determine what kind of file it is, because some extensions are used for multiple file types. For example it can be used on DVDs as part of an automatic launching, as a form of executable file refered to as Binaries as they are made up machine language binary info in Windows, or data files stored in raw binary on some other OS's or as a part of a portable app. Source: almost 2 years ago
Need help decompiling AITD : The New Nightmare
I can't figure out the ones without the filetype The VRM files are probably VR Model files, which you can learn more about here: https://vrm.dev/en/ Howeveer, the VRM files also say that they are gzip compressed, and I can't figure out anything about the the contents of that file. In general, this website, where you can upload the file and it will give you info on the file is a decent resource.... Source: about 2 years ago

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