How to open dat file

[Greg_Reez]

I'm constantly receiving files from clients, and I get winmail.dat attachments through email from only a certain few. Rather than bother them I did research on my own a few months ago.

I downloaded this program that extracts the files from the .dat attachment. Works great, and sometimes the .dat file is hiding several files in it.

For me it works everytime.

[Mike Van Horn]

Thanks, ElDiablo, for the suggestion to use "Uploading.com." It worked just fine.

However, one warning to others: the site has the most obnoxious, obtrusive ads I've ever encountered, including an audio voice that kept talking to me even after I closed the window, and a pop up ad that put a dozen identical copies on my desktop so that whenever I closed one, there'd be another! They cut right through the Firefox defenses.

mvh

[lbj]

That does NOT sound like the type of site I would ever want to utilize personally, and certainly not advertise to my friends, family, or colleagues!

That's porn site behavior...or so I have been told.

[maccamac]

long time but here goes anyway ....

I've had luck opening various and sundry DAT files with BBEdit 9.1.1 (2328).

my current problem is that Hostal is no longer allowing me to edit the hostal.dat file via the application itself -- won't recognize the Admin User password. Now I hafta go into the hostal.dat file using bbedit ... not sure what happened but I'm still on Tiger/ppc & it's going wacko (again & again & again .... ad infinitum) even w/ a recent archive and reinstall....sigh.

fyi & fwiw hope this helps the next person w/ a dat file conundrum.

cheers!