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Opening .img files
31-08-2008 9:21 PM
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Please would someone tell me how I can get a .img to to stop automatically going to Adobe, and even better, what software should I be using to get at the .img file?
TIA
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31-08-2008 9:28 PM
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31-08-2008 9:29 PM
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b if you highlight the file in explorer and right click, you "should" get an item Open with, this will let you try another program
c what is the file extension, i.e. JPG, BMP, PNG?
you might have to enable show file extensions in explorer to see this
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31-08-2008 9:33 PM
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31-08-2008 9:40 PM
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31-08-2008 9:46 PM
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31-08-2008 9:55 PM
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31-08-2008 10:18 PM
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the box reads..... [ ] always use this to open files of this type
make sure you "uncheck" the box Then you can try any other programs on the list.......
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31-08-2008 10:31 PM
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31-08-2008 10:31 PM
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31-08-2008 11:16 PM
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it gives the Identifying Characters for each file so you would then know what it is. As you can rename any file to anything you like it could be anything
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02-09-2008 11:37 AM
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Opening the File with a Hex Editor and identifying the Header Bytes is one of the easiest ways of determining a file type.
WinImage would open the kinds of '.img' Extension, which are commonly associated as Disk Images rather than Graphical Images.
Hope that helps...
Jim,
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02-09-2008 11:54 AM
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Quote from: penneck I have a .img file which I need to open.
You haven't said what you're expecting it to be or where it came from or the program that created it.
If you "need" to open it you must know a fair bit about it but have actually said very little.
The commonest .img files I encounter are actually firmware for upgrading electronic devices, but you are probably expecting something else.
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02-09-2008 1:36 PM
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Quote from: Prod_Man Opening the File with a Hex Editor and identifying the Header Bytes is one of the easiest ways of determining a file type.
WinImage would open the kinds of '.img' Extension, which are commonly associated as Disk Images rather than Graphical Images.
My Linux OS (Ubuntu) has been doing that for years to show different thumbnails as icons, dependent on those header bytes.
This allows it to show a thumbnail for an image file, the first frame of a movie for a thumbnail, the first page of a pdf file etc
Note that there are a few file types which have the same header bytes and need to be distinguished by looking at the filename - so it isn't totally foolproof.
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02-09-2008 6:56 PM
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but perhapse the Window Manager that you're using is doing that
Not too different to the length that Windows has been annoying me out-of-the-box,
with their damned Thumb Nail views fine for a Graphical person....
Nothing is totally fool proof.
The Header is more useful than a File Extension.
In terms of what type of Data is likely to be within the body of the File.
Jim,
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