CCA Converter

Extract text from Legacy archives (CCA)

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Drop or upload your .CCA file

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How to extract text from your CCA file

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

Convert CCA to another file type

To convert CCA archives to another format, you need Lotus cc:Mail or other Database software.

Convert a file to CCA

To convert other file formats to the "Email Storage Container" file type, you need software like Lotus cc:Mail or a similar tool.

About CCA files

The .cca file extension represents a collision of legacy standards, most frequently functioning as a cc:Mail Archive database. Originally developed by Lotus (later acquired by IBM), this format locks critical business communication history inside a proprietary binary database that modern clients like Microsoft Outlook cannot natively read. Users often encounter these files during server migrations or legal discovery, discovering that the data is inaccessible without specialized middleware.

Alternatively, a .cca file may be a project source file created by Click and Create, the predecessor to the modern Clickteam Fusion game engine. In this context, the file contains multimedia assets, logic, and sprites.

A third distinct use case is within the broadcast industry, where .cca serves as a project file for Telestream MacCaption. These files store closed captioning timing and text data but are not suitable for distribution.

Best Conversion Targets:

For Email: Convert to PST (for Outlook), MBOX (for Thunderbird/Apple Mail), or PDF (for archiving).
For Games: Migration usually requires importing into newer Clickteam software; assets can sometimes be extracted to PNG or WAV.
For Captions: These must be converted to SRT, SCC, or VTT for compatibility with web players and broadcast servers.

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

Users also converted RAR, ZIP, ARC, MCA, CA, EN and MP3 files.

FAQ

If you want to convert CCA file to MCA, CA, EN, MP3, EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3 or PK4, you can use Lotus cc:Mail or similar software from the "Legacy Email Archive Database" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MOD, BIN, CFG, SCX, DAT, MPQ, LOG, CUE, INI, EXE, SCM or ISO files to CCA, try Lotus cc:Mail or another comparable tool in the "Legacy Email Archive Database" category.

The CCA 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 CCA converter.