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Supported File Formats

Advanced File Recovery scans the PC for the following file types and allows previewing them. However, if you face any problem previewing the file type, it might be because the file is corrupted or too big to preview. Photos, text files, documents, and archives of more than 50 MB are not shown, while audio and video files of more than 500 MB cannot be previewed. Therefore to view such files, we recommend saving the file and opening it in the default viewer.

To know the popular file formats that can be recovered using Advanced File Recovery, read below:

Photo Formats:

Popular Photo Formats

JPG, JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF, TIF, JFIF, JP2

RAW Photos (Digital camera files)

DNG (Adobe), CR2/CR3/CRW (Canon), NEF/NRW (Nikon), PEF/PTX (Pentax), MOS (Leaf), 3FR (Hasselblad), ARI (Arri_Alexa), ARW/SR2 (Sony), ERF(Epson), FFF (Imcon/Hasselblad raw), KDC/K25/DCR/DCS/DRF (Kodak), EIP/LIQ/CAP (Phase_One), RAW (Panasonic/Leica).

Raster Photos

PPM, PGM, PBM, PNM, HEIF, ICO, PCX, SGI, PLBM, FLIF, ECW, PI, PSD, J2C, WEBP, PSP, XCF, PEE, THM, PDD, HEIC, MNG, PNB, SRW, FFF, PCT, RAF.

Vector Photos

CGM, DXF, EVA, EMF, SVG2, SVGZ, WMF, EPSF, JPS, HPGL, AI.

Audio Formats:

Common Audio Formats

AAC, M4A, MP3, WAV, WMA.

Other Audio Formats

AIFF, AU, CDA, MIDI, M3D, RM, RPS, RFL, RNS

Video Formats:

Common Video Formats

MP4, MOV, WMV, AVI, MKV

Other Video Formats

3GP, MTS, FLC, CLK, DVM, ANM, AVS, M4V, MOI, ANI, QT, SMJPE

Document Formats:

Common Document Formats

DOC, DOCX, DOT, DOTX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, PDF, ODT, DOCM, and DOTM

Other Document Formats

PPTM, POT, POTX, POTM, PPSX, PPS, ODP, ODS, XLA, XLAM, XLT, XLSM, XLSB, XLTX, and XLTM

Text and Application Formats:

Common Text and Application Formats

JSP, ASPX, PHP, HTML, TXT, EXE, CPP, H, MHT, MHTML, and Apple Mail EMLX/EML

Other Text and Application Formats

DCI, INDT, SCPT, C, SHW, ENC, MAIL, FLA, FP3, FP5, FP7, MUS, NTF, NSF, PST, SWF, DBX, PMD, PTF, ICS, DLL, INI, LOG, CSS, JS, XML, CONFIG, RTF, IPHOTO and PLIST.

Archive Formats:

Common Archive Formats

Zip, RAR, 7Z, TAR, CAB.