Does anybody know of how to convert a .bin file to a .jpg or .gif file? One of my friends sent me a picture to my e-mail and it came out as a .bin file. I have a Mac and the stuffix expander doesn't help.
What do i do? Or what do i use?
2006-12-13 10:31:57 · 2 answers · asked by Boomer0283 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
You can't. BIN files are not your typical image file. They are not pictures per se. They are "images" of content stored on CD's or DVD's. They are akin to ISO image files. To access the information from BIN files, you need to "mount" them on a virtual drive emulator, such as Daemon tools, Alcohol 52% or Elaborate Byte's Virtual Drive. Please read:
"How Do I Use or Open Bin, Cue, or ISO Files?" (http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/696/how_use_open_bin_cue_iso_files)
People frequently get confused regarding these file types. Here's how to use these files.
*.bin
*.cue
*.iso
These file extensions are commonly used to show that a file is an image of a CD or DVD.
The most simple way to access these files is to use your CD or DVD Burner to burn them to a disk. Nero is a common program that is used to burn bin/cue files to hard media.
One really nice thing to do is to treat these files as a virtual CD or DVD without ever burning them. Daemon Tools is one program that is often used to do this. Microsoft now has a free program that does this as well.
The other place that *.bin files are frequently used are in emulation software. Gaming roms are often stored in compressed files full of bin files. If you have a zip file full of *.bin files, try Mame or some similiar emulator.
2006-12-13 11:52:31 · answer #1 · answered by What the...?!? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A bin file could be a file for any number of programs, or an image file for any number of programs.
You could try a program like xnview though.
The best thing to do is to ask your friend to send you the file in another format (tiff, jpeg, jpg, etc).
2006-12-13 11:30:40 · answer #2 · answered by spotmenow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋