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  1. May 14th, 2012, 02:51 PM #1
    NoHopeForHumanity
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    Can anyone point me in the right direction?

    Hello, First of all, I'm extremely new to any form of coding whatsoever, so I'm not entirely sure how everything works. I have a few .dat files that I'm trying to edit. I read up on it for a while and was told to basically decrypt it into a .txt file and edit it from there then turn it back into the .dat. But when I made it a .txt the contents are complete gibberish. Heres a sample fragment of the text I got as an end result.
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    ç!pÕ<Rœßv!§*
ß*Þ”(Ñ@y^*Xºè/È)¤3¹Ž¸I+x
Vwó˃dpë¹|dUÿV1ñ÷ÂLóv‰/]»âð…>Έ¾Ò,b¼o`ož’*Ü¡¢üK”*þéšaC–)›*£ÿ–Ž{¢öz*4rzÑïø¸q68î’•Q€ôÙ|wßÅÅžm*é(&DǬ¬Xêf_^üŸΙG&}9!RDkjie·“5côTãjW3Og/ÛßuºÝ)!â·
    Could anybody possibly point me in the right direction to getting something reasonably editable out of that? If so it would be much appreciated.
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  2. May 14th, 2012, 03:56 PM #2
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    Re: Can anyone point me in the right direction?

    What is a ".dat" file? Any program can write any file with any extension it wants.

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  3. May 14th, 2012, 04:27 PM #3
    NoHopeForHumanity
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    Re: Can anyone point me in the right direction?

    In this case the .dat's are programming from inside a .ipa.. a smartphone app.
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  4. May 14th, 2012, 09:23 PM #4
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    Re: Can anyone point me in the right direction?

    As already mentioned...any app and write data to any extension they want. So, unless you find out what the actual data mime type is and what form of encoding/encryption the developer used...you're sunk.
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  6. May 15th, 2012, 08:29 AM #5
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    Re: Can anyone point me in the right direction?

    after reading this post i think i finally understand the importance of mime types
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