How to open the DAT file

DAT files are mainly "data" files. No matter what the content is, for example, text, graphics, video, or common binary data, it does not have a unified and detailed structure. Therefore, you cannot understand that it also corresponds to an application used to open it. For example, if you see a DOC file, you immediately know that it is a file generated by a Word document in the office and can be opened by word. But the DAT file is different, it can be any software generated regardless of the structure of the file.

SoHow to open the DAT file?? The best way is to use the software that creates the DAT file to open it, but suppose you do not know what software has created it. First, you can try to use NotePad to open and see some data, but sometimes the data is displayed in garbled format. The following two figures are mtoou. info mutong found two items on his computer. the following figure shows the results of using notepad to open the DAT file:

This DAT file can be opened in Notepad

However, the DAT file cannot be opened in Notepad because of garbled characters.

The first data. dat file can be opened, but the second 0. dat file cannot be opened. Obviously, these two DAT files are not in the same format. I also tried to use the Image Viewer and storm audio and video player to open the second file, but they could not be opened. This instance is a feature that the DAT file does not have a unified and detailed structure. It cannot be opened by a program similar to the following format files (of course, if you modify the format name, you cannot ).

No 100% software can open all the DAT files. What should I do if the notepad cannot be opened? To use the old saying "Release the bell and contact", you need to know who the "Contact" is (which is the corresponding program )! The following methods are available:

Sometimes we will occasionally receive a dat file when receiving an attachment, so let's first try whether the notepad can be opened. Suppose we cannot ask the sender of the email: What is this file? If the answer is an image, you can try to change the extension and open it in the Image Viewer. If the answer is a video, you can try to use storm audio and video.

For some strange phenomena: Some mail programs will take the initiative to change the original format of the attachment to the DAT format. Upload an image named mtoou.jpg, which is automatically changed to mtoou. dat. If you know, you can change dat to JPG. If you do not know the format of the DAT file, you still need to ask the sender.

Without knowing it, I have played so many bits. It means that the DAT file is unknown, and only the program that creates it is stored in it. If you do not know whether the file format is changed to the DAT format, you can try notepad first. If not, you need to ask the user of the DAT file.