{"id":3246,"date":"2015-01-20T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T09:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.filepuma.com\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2024-07-15T19:05:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T02:05:27","slug":"how-to-open-bac-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/how-to-open-bac-file\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Open .Bac File"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAC is a file format that was used by an application called Avantrix Backup Plus to store backed-up data. However, Windows Vista and Windows 7 cannot support this application, so you cannot use it to open BAC files. Fortunately, you can change the file extension on a BAC file from .bac to .zip, and then use a file decompression tool to view its contents. Here is the instruction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. Click \u201cStart,\u201d enter \u201cShow or Hide File Extensions\u201d and press enter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/QaEgq79654be1fc86851b439786145.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"491\" height=\"518\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Keep the \u201cHide Extensions\u201d option unchecked.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/FQmCz61054be1fdcedb9f509380366.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"396\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. Change the BAC file extension to .zip and press enter.<\/p>\n<p>5. Download and install a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/search\/zip\/#gsc.tab=0&amp;gsc.ie=UTF8&amp;gsc.sort=&amp;gsc.q=zip\">file decompression utility<\/a> such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/search\/%2520WinRAR\/#gsc.tab=0&amp;gsc.ie=UTF8&amp;gsc.sort=&amp;gsc.q=%20WinRAR\">WinRAR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>6. Open BAC file with the compression utility you download to view the contents inside the BAC file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAC is a file format that was used by an application called Avantrix Backup Plus to store backed-up data. However, Windows Vista and Windows 7 cannot support this application, so you cannot use it to open BAC files. Fortunately, you can change the file extension on a BAC file from .bac to .zip, and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developer-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5224,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/5224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}