cannot open a file now appearing as .dat it was saved by Hotmail lm2111[ at ]hotmail.com 10/26/2008 7:36:01 PM I save my msn conversations. I saved one and it is now appearing as: activesharingfolder.dat and when I try to open it, it tells me it's blocked, I have tried different programs to open it and it does not work. It also tells me it's now an XML file ???? Can someone help ? Could I change the .dat to .doc ? Please help Thank you

Re: cannot open a file now appearing as .dat it was saved by Hotmail "Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett[ at ]newsgroup.nospam> 10/28/2008 8:25:18 AM Try right-clicking, choose properties and "Unblock". There are free programs online that can read dat files created by mail readers although dat has no specific format, it's a catch-all extension for a data file. -- Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML) http://joe.fawcett.name "lm2111[ at ]hotmail.com" <lm2111[ at ]hotmail.com[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:60A5656A-7C89-4193-919C-EF92F730E44A[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I save my msn conversations. I saved one and it is now appearing as: > > activesharingfolder.dat and when I try to open it, it tells me it's > blocked, I have tried different programs to open it and it does not work. > > It also tells me it's now an XML file ???? > > Can someone help ? > > Could I change the .dat to .doc ? > > Please help > > > Thank you