I have an email attachment in "dat". What can I use to open it?

Question

I have an email attachment in "dat". What can I use to open it? I know the person that sent it and I need to open it. I tried "Notepad, and the download suggestion but I could not get it to work. I also tried to media player. Still no luck Thanks for the help

Answer 1

Can be just about anything: text, graphic, or general binary data. There is no specific structure for a .DAT file. You can use an editor like EditPad Pro to look inside a .DAT file and possible determine its contents and relationship with a program.

Or - make a copy of it and change the extension to TXT and open it in and see if you can figure out what type of file it should be.

Answer 2

"dat" is a generic extension for "data". It is used by hundreds of programs. You will need to ask the person who sent it to you what program they use to open it. It is also possible that you may have to rename the file with a different extension for it to work. But you have to find out from the person who sent it what the extension is. Could be anything from .aaa to .zzz

IF you can find out the program, repost and someone should be able to help you get it opened once we know what it is...