AFPLOC Converter

Extract text from AFP location files (AFPLOC)


Drop or upload your .AFPLOC file
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How to extract text from your AFPLOC file

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

Convert AFPLOC to another file type

To convert AFPLOC location files to another format, you need macOS Finder or other System software.

Convert a file to AFPLOC

To convert other file formats to the "Network Shortcut File" file type, you need software like macOS Finder or a similar tool.


About AFPLOC files

An .afploc file is a network location shortcut created by macOS. It stores the URL for an Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) server share. These files are generated by the macOS Finder when a user drags a network volume to their desktop or folder. You can read more about the protocol on Wikipedia's AFP page. This format is heavily restricted and increasingly obsolete. Apple deprecated AFP in favor of SMB. These files do not contain actual documents or media. They only contain a plain text or binary server path (like afp://192.168.1.10/share). Consequently, they are completely useless natively on Windows or Linux. Users often encounter them when migrating files from old Mac servers to modern systems and realize the links no longer work. You cannot convert an .afploc file to a standard media file or document. The best conversion target is a simple TXT file to extract the server IP address or domain so you can reconnect manually. This is a closed, proprietary shortcut format designed specifically for the Mac operating system. Standard online converters fail to process it because they expect document data, not system routing instructions.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert AFPLOC file to , you can use macOS Finder or similar software from the "Network Server Shortcut" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to AFPLOC, try macOS Finder or another comparable tool in the "Network Server Shortcut" category.



The AFPLOC 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 AFPLOC converter.