Have problems with a file extension

[kiepie]

Hi

With what do i open *.cab files?

I tried google but that programs doesn't work.

 

[|tera|]

Just use Winrar

 

[BiteMe]

cab files
use "extract" on your commandline

use winzip

use winrar

use a spoon

just double click them in windows xp

 

[kiepie]

Unknown format/damaged. It can be damaged, 5 of them.

 

[kiepie]

It is an *.iso file, so I open it with Alcohol 120% then in the virtual cd it gives me the *.cab files.

 

[wcoetzee]

http://www.7-zip.org/

 

[ld13]

.Cab files
Cabinet files.

And afaik you are not supposed to open these at all. I have never opened a .cab file in my life. What is it supposed to be frana?

 

[kiepie]

http://www.7-zip.org/

Gives me the same error

 

[BiteMe]

I have never opened a .cab file in my life.

you should try it then you may never look back.

cabs are like zips in laymans terms, nothing magical there.
seen them when win95 came out. 12 years ago. get with the times


if you are mounting the iso which i assume alcohol is doing, and then trying to open a cab from a mounted iso it may not work. you should perhaps first extract the iso to your hdd, then try fiddle with the cabs.

 

[wcoetzee]

Gives me the same error

what error bro

 

[kiepie]

The archive is either in unknown format or damaged.

 

[dotVIBE]

have you tried to mount the .iso file with daemon tools? afaik is a .iso a cd image, so you're not supposed uncompress it.

Edit: sorry, stupid.

.cab is usually microsoft compressed archives. maybe you are short a disk?

 

[kiepie]

if you are mounting the iso which i assume alcohol is doing, and then trying to open a cab from a mounted iso it may not work. you should perhaps first extract the iso to your hdd, then try fiddle with the cabs.

Copied and pasted the iso to my HD, same "nknown format probem"

 

[ld13]

you should try it then you may never look back.

cabs are like zips in laymans terms, nothing magical there.
seen them when win95 came out. 12 years ago. get with the times


if you are mounting the iso which i assume alcohol is doing, and then trying to open a cab from a mounted iso it may not work. you should perhaps first extract the iso to your hdd, then try fiddle with the cabs.

And who are you Renamed?

Yes, I know of those files from back in the days of Win95. And I also know that allot of programs/installers/apps (Like Sims etc etc) use those files to install from. 99.999% Of the times I can remember trying to open them, I failed. frana I am taking a guess here to say that you did not get all the parts of that installation. This Is a random guess though

 

[acidrain]

How to open a .cab file

All you need.

Hope it helps.

http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_030a.html

 

[Browser]

ld13 is right, .cab (cabinet files) are used for installation programs. It's alot like a compressed file (zip, rar,,,) but it's a crummy format. Not all of them can be opened with something like WinRAR/zip though especially if they're corrupt or protected.

frana, are you using Windows XP and what happends when you double-click on them, it should behave the same as a .zip file being opened in the Explorer window (if it does open in Explorer and looks like an empty folder give up). If you've lost you file association for .cab files try, Start>Run>regsvr32 %windir%\system32\cabview.dll and try opening it in Explorer again.

 

[kiepie]

ld13 is right, .cab (cabinet files) are used for installation programs. It's alot like a compressed file (zip, rar,,,) but it's a crummy format. Not all of them can be opened with something like WinRAR/zip though especially if they're corrupt or protected.

frana, are you using Windows XP and what happends when you double-click on them, it should behave the same as a .zip file being opened in the Explorer window (if it does open in Explorer and looks like an empty folder give up). If you've lost you file association for .cab files try, Start>Run>regsvr32 %windir%\system32\cabview.dll and try opening it in Explorer again.

Edit: False alarm, it doesn't give me the error now. It gives me one of two options.

Open or Save, If I click Save it just save me an identical copy and with open it does nothing.
The file is not corrupted or anything.

 

[kiepie]

Any help...

 

[acidrain]

Did u go to the link in my post. If not then you would have missed out a fact they point out.

Try bitzipper:

Info:
If you want to work with Cab files, Tech-Pro recommends BitZipper. It's a very versatile, yet easy to use archive manager. It can open Zip files, Cab files, Rar files and 17 other popular compressed and encoded file formats. It can create archives using most of these formats too, plus it's a fast and flexible backup tool.

BitZipper has a Wizard interface for novice users with no experience of working with compressed files, and a Classic interface (shown right) for more experienced users. BitZipper is a solid and stable application that can handle the largest Cab archives without crashing.

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[kiepie]

All you need.

Hope it helps.

http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_030a.html

Thanks for all your help, I had enough issues with this cab files.