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Conversion of bin format files into its original format?

vinutha — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 06:46:17 GMT

HiThe DMS data is being corrupted, henceforth need to restore data from Bin format to its original format kindly help to solve the issue.RegardsVinutha M P

Re: Conversion of bin format files into its original format?

douglascrp — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:25:22 GMT

There is no need to "convert" the files, as they are not changed in any way.

The only thing you have to do is to identify what is the file type, and then simply change the extension from bin to something else, like doc or pdf.

Using linux, you can take advantage of the "file" command line utility, which will give you the right file format.

You can use it as follow:

$ file af5e0877-7158-4700-b421-22fcef72ee1a.bin
af5e0877-7158-4700-b421-22fcef72ee1a.bin: Microsoft Excel 2007+

As you can see, the sample I got is a xlsx file, and I could simply rename it and open it normally.

Re: Conversion of bin format files into its original format?

vinutha — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 05:02:55 GMT

Thanks for your response.But how to do in windows server?

Re: Conversion of bin format files into its original format?

douglascrp — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 12:43:42 GMT

Nothing changes in the Alfresco side. You have to do the same thing.

Talking about finding out what the file is, honestly, I don't know, as I don't use Windows.

Have you tried google?