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TICKET ARCHIVE -> opening .DAT files

emk - Jun 23, 2008 - 5:20 pm

Hi,
I recently purchased a MacbookPro. I was a PC user until now. I'm in the process of transferring all my files into my Mac. I'm trying to copy my archived chats from Yahoo messenger onto the Mac and then open them but have been unable to do so. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks very much,
emk

peter_ob - Jun 24, 2008 - 11:11 am

If you have Microsoft Word it should be able to open it. Here's a link of some other compatible text editors.
http://www.fileinfo.net/help/text-editors.html

bests,

peter

emk - Jun 24, 2008 - 4:54 pm

Hi,
Microsoft word did not open the yahoo messenger archive files (from a PC) that are in a .DAT format. I now own a macbook pro and would like to transfer (I already have) those archive files on my Mac and open them. I would really appreciate a more in depth reply.
Thanks very much.
emk

TechSupport - Jun 27, 2008 - 5:00 pm

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