Can NotePad++ edit these files ?

ioc2e3

If not, what programs can edit these files ?

.aff
.bdic
.db
.dic
.qm
.jar
.json
.pak

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Terry R

Now, why can’t you use a search engine (Google) to identify these files? It took me only a couple of minutes to identify likely types and to also realise that most of your list are “binary” files. That means Notepad++ ISN’T the editor to use, as it is a TEXT editor. The json file type is the only truly TEXT file amongst your list. a db file is a database file and is highly structured, editing this in Notepad++ is most likely going to end in tears once you realise you have corrupted it.

As to what does edit these files, that would be the original developers application. In most cases they aren’t files to be edited manually, rather they are “archive” containers and meant to be opened by the appropriate application.

This forum deals with Notepad++ questions and issues, so if you aren’t serious about Notepad++ it might be better to find some other forum to get answers from.

Terry

Coises

@ioc2e3:

I’m fairly sure the only one of those you can edit in Notepad++ is json.

You’ll have to look up the rest yourself. In some cases there might be more than one way the same file extension is used, so you’ll have to figure out which program wrote the files. (For example, .aff can be a file used as part of a spell-checking dictionary or an Advanced Forensic Format file.)

Even for JSON, you usually shouldn’t just edit a JSON file in Notepad++ unless you know what you are doing. JSON files are highly structured and any given JSON file is normally maintained by a specific program or set of programs for specific purposes. Usually there is a correct way to change the data stored there through a user interface provided by the application, rather than diving in yourself.

It might seem like a pain in the butt, but you need to work out which programs created each of the files that concern you and research those programs to figure out how to examine and/or change these files. If Notepad++ can open them at all, it will probably give you nothing but the ability to mess them up.