All my yahoo coversations are stored in the Yahoo IM archives but I can't access it because of it being down and all. I went to the C Drive and found the list, but it displays them as DAT Files. What do I do ???
2006-07-22 17:01:16 · 4 answers · asked by BoSox847 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
They are data files. Try opening with notepad. Be sure to uncheck the box "always open with this" so you can try other programs to open it.
Good Luck
I'll try to find more info to put in here.
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2004/112904drinternet.html
try that ^
2006-07-22 17:05:51 · answer #1 · answered by phy333 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that is not VCD compressed whilst the unique report is now .... various gamers are in help of his gamers . DAT isn't a extensive-unfold rfile. Many are using this utility extension, yet distinctive which skill of the rfile. case in point, for the VCD report. DAT, and various of the education diagnosis utility additionally use this extension to maintain archives. this relies upon on the specific utility to set the placement. DAT report, in accordance with the extension of view is the which skill of archives, or archives data, such data did no longer carry out the definition of absolute, alongside with VCD discs interior the DAT report can be able to apply a similar video participant open, QQ and the DAT data are saved interior the consumer's education isn't obtainable to open the common way, in basic terms you have get admission to to the technique QQ. There are additionally different courses have their own definition of DAT report, via a particular technique to open linked with DAT report. Jacky
2016-12-10 12:36:51 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no way to know how to open a .dat file unless you know what program created it. Period.
"... if you don't know what application created the file, there's no way to know how to open it." A good example is that Yahoo Instant Messenger (YIM) apparently keeps it's message history in a file that ends in ".dat". The way Yahoo works, you can only open that .dat file using Yahoo Instant Messenger, and only of you are logged in to the account that created the file in the first place.
But if you don't know what application created the file, there's no way to know how to open it.
If you do know what application created the file, then it's likely only that application can be used to open it.
2006-07-22 17:17:17 · answer #3 · answered by Halle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Change the .dat to .txt and open it with Notepad.
2006-07-22 17:04:59 · answer #4 · answered by Test03 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋