Unknown Database type

[compguru910]

Hello, I am currently working on developing a RO management software for a bodyshop. The program that writes the estimates exports files (that I believe) are database files. I want to be able to directly import these into my software, but I cannot seem to figure out what database platform they belong to. Here is a list of the file types that are created on an extract.

.ad1, .ad2, .dbt, .env, .lin, .pfh, .pfl, .pfm, .pfo, .pfp, .pft, .stl, .ttl, .veh, .ven

I dont really know if that helps, but, if I try to open any of those files I get a bunch of squares, and at the bottom I got some legible items like vehicle year make model. If needed, I can supply these files for someone to take a look at to see if they can decode. Thanks in advance

 

[Hack]

Who wrote this program?

None of those are file extensions to any database I've ever heard of.

I googled the first two.

Google told me that ad1 is the file extension of a Foresenic Toolkit and the File extension AD2 is associated with ADPCM. Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (ADPCM) is a lossy compression format, which means that some data is altered and lost during compression.

 

[compguru910]

Well, the extensions I think just let the program know what the file is relating to. Like the .veh stores the vehicle information. The company that made the software is called CCC Pathways.

 

[Hack]

The best way to open them and have them make any sense is for CCC Pathways to tell you how they create them in the first place.

They could be straight text files that have been encrypted. I suspect, however, that they would prefer you not be able to open them.

 

[cjard]

open the files in a hex editor and look at them

post a screenshoit