Observed arrival · 2026-11-05

Open Old Files: a browser reader for forgotten formats

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Editorial interest 82/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

A browser-based tool for opening older document formats and saving them as modern files.

Landing page captured for the 2026-11-05 issue.

For: People trying to recover documents from obsolete software
Worth noticing: The format list reaches from Works databases and Lotus spreadsheets to classic Mac files that may have no extension.

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The format list names individual extensions and also calls out classic Mac documents that may have no extension. The visible viewer includes a character-set selector, previous/next navigation, zoom, and text copying. The page attributes its format support to open-source readers also used by LibreOffice; it describes whole-folder conversion into one ZIP as not yet available.

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