Saturday, February 9, 2013

Online File Extension Identifier

Today, I tried to open a file which I received through email from some company. First I downloaded the file, after that tried to open it but it wasn't opening as the file does not have any extension.

I tried to open it from 'Open With' option and checked by selecting word, excel, rar, zip, etc but no luck. Then I right clicked the file and checked the details, unfortunately, no details available and no information on extension available. Finally, I started googling by typing this phrase: 'if file type is file how to open'. In the first page results I found an interested link: http://mark0.net/onlinetrid.aspx I opened this site and just given my file local path and clicked on Analyze button and hurray within a second in the below grid I got the file information. The extension was PDF...

What an experience it was...It was very helpful because I didn't had much time to contact the sender and enquire about the file type through email :)