.DAT is a commonly used file extension for saving generic data records. The information contained within a .DAT file depends on the program used to create it, but it will usually be in binary code or ...

If you live in a world where you get email from Outlook users, and I think most of us do, you probably see the dreaded winmail.dat file on occasion. Outlook compresses all of its attachments together ...

We keep getting e-mail attachments in winmail.dat files and can’t open them. What’s going on? Is there a utility that can extract the attachments from these? When Outlook or Outlook Express users send ...

If you've ever received a forward from an Outlook user in Mail.app containing an attached winmail.dat file, you probably scratched your head wondering why this strange file ended up in your inbox and ...

We’ve all seen mysterious .dat file attachments in our inboxes from time to time. In most cases the .dat attachment originates in Microsoft Outlook, which produces outgoing messages using a slightly ...

Windows only: Index.dat Suite is an index file editor that allows you to selectively edit or completely erase the contents of index.dat files on your computer. Why edit the index.dat? When you browse ...

I was confused by your answer regarding winmail.dat. The file cannot be opened traditionally, at least to obtain what the receiver believes to be valuable contents. Rather, it’s used internally by ...

.dat can mean many things. data of any type quite often ends up with these extensions. How about using the app that created them? You can also try viewing them in notepad.

How can I reduce the size of a VCD dat file? I had tried converting the file to mpeg but it hardly compressed the file. What are the various file formats which can reduce the size of the dat files ...