ADR Converter

Extract text from Bookmark files (ADR)


Drop or upload your .ADR file

How to extract text from your ADR file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ADR file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert ADR to another file type

To convert ADR Bookmarks to another format, you need Opera Browser or other Data software.

Convert a file to ADR

To convert other file formats to the "Database and Backup Files" file type, you need software like Opera Browser or a similar tool.


About ADR files

The .ADR file extension is heavily fragmented. Its most common uses are legacy Opera browser bookmarks and Intuit QuickBooks Auto Data Recovery files. It is also used as an actor runtime definition file in the Forgelight game engine (such as H1Z1), and as various legacy address book databases utilizing Microsoft JetDB or older Lotus systems. These formats pose significant usability challenges. Opera bookmarks saved as .ADR originate from the deprecated Presto engine. Modern Chromium-based browsers cannot read them directly, requiring users to extract the data and convert it to standard HTML bookmark files to import their old links. QuickBooks Auto Data Recovery files are proprietary, automated backups of QBW files. They are useless outside the Intuit ecosystem and cannot be opened with standard software; they exist solely to restore corrupt accounting data. Other .ADR variants are outdated database files that require specific legacy environments to function. If you need to recover contacts, URLs, or data from these files, standard online converters will almost always fail because they cannot determine which of the many completely different .ADR structures your specific file uses. Our analyzer will inspect the internal hexadecimal structure of your .ADR file. If it detects raw XML, plain text, or an embedded database structure, it will extract the readable content, allowing you to salvage trapped data into modern formats like CSV, HTML, or TXT.

Convert.Guru analyzes your ADR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted ARD, QBW, CDR, PDF, WAV, ABR, DOCX, PKG, JAR, TRACE and CSV files.


FAQ

If you want to convert ADR file to CSV, HTML, HTM, CSS, JS, PHP, ASP, ASPX, JSP, JSPX, PY or RB, you can use Opera Browser or similar software from the "Browser Bookmarks and Data Recovery" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert RSS, CSS, CGI, SITEMAP, PL, WEBMANIFEST, JSON, JS, XML, HTML, ICO or HTM files to ADR, try Opera Browser or another comparable tool in the "Browser Bookmarks and Data Recovery" category.



The ADR Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our ADR converter.