Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your DVDR file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert DVDR to another file type
To convert DVDR recovery files to another format, you need CorelDRAW or other Vector Image software.
Convert a file to DVDR
To convert other file formats to the "Recovery Archive" file type, you need software like CorelDRAW or a similar tool.
About DVDR files
A .DVDR file is primarily associated with CorelDRAW as a Drawing Recovery file, generated automatically during a system crash or unexpected termination. Unlike standard CDR files, these are often temporary containers (internally structured as ZIP archives) meant to restore lost vector work. Users typically encounter this format when CorelDRAW attempts to salvage a document after a freeze, or occasionally due to a specific saving error on macOS where CDR files are incorrectly appended with the .dvdr extension. Because it is a proprietary recovery format, it cannot be opened by standard image viewers or web browsers. A minority of .dvdr files (approx. 1%) may be DVD Master Images used for disc burning, unrelated to vector graphics. To use the vector data in tools like Adobe Illustrator or for archiving, converting to PDF or SVG is essential.
Convert.Guru analyzes your DVDR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert DVDR file to ISO, IMG, DMG, VHD, VMDK, VDI, HDD, QCOW, QCOW2, RAW, VBOX or OVA, you can use CorelDRAW or similar software from the "CorelDRAW Recovery File" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert VFD, DMG, OVA, IMA, VBOX, ADF, PVS, VHD, OVF, ISO, DSK or IMG files to DVDR, try CorelDRAW or another comparable tool in the "CorelDRAW Recovery File" category.
The DVDR 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 DVDR converter.