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A DAT file is a generic file that can have nearly any kind of content in it. If you open a DAT file in the program used to create it, it will open properly, but it can be hard to know what that program is. The file extension .dat is short for data. The .dat file is used by Minecraft to track user and level data. A program called NBTExplorer is recommended for editing Minecraft DAT files.<ref name="rf1">https://github.com/jaquadro/NBTExplorer</ref> By editing a Minecraft DAT file, you can modify the game content. [[Use NBTexplorer to Edit Minecraft Saves|Click here]] for a wikiHow article on editing Minecraft DAT files. You can open a DAT file using any text editor, but if the file is in a non-text format, it will look like nonsense. This is especially true of DAT files related to video files.<ref name="rf2">http://www.openthefile.net/extension/dat</ref> Sometimes, DAT files a generated by Outlook email messages sent with rich text formatting, like bolding or italics. The Outlook DAT files are used to store the rich text formatting data and are unusable otherwise.<ref name="rf3">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278061</ref> | A DAT file is a generic file that can have nearly any kind of content in it. If you open a DAT file in the program used to create it, it will open properly, but it can be hard to know what that program is. The file extension .dat is short for data. The .dat file is used by Minecraft to track user and level data. A program called NBTExplorer is recommended for editing Minecraft DAT files.<ref name="rf1">https://github.com/jaquadro/NBTExplorer</ref> By editing a Minecraft DAT file, you can modify the game content. [[Use NBTexplorer to Edit Minecraft Saves|Click here]] for a wikiHow article on editing Minecraft DAT files. You can open a DAT file using any text editor, but if the file is in a non-text format, it will look like nonsense. This is especially true of DAT files related to video files.<ref name="rf2">http://www.openthefile.net/extension/dat</ref> Sometimes, DAT files a generated by Outlook email messages sent with rich text formatting, like bolding or italics. The Outlook DAT files are used to store the rich text formatting data and are unusable otherwise.<ref name="rf3">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278061</ref> | ||
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