Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your EXD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert EXD to another file type
To convert EXD cache files to another format, you need Microsoft Office or other Data software.
Convert a file to EXD
To convert other file formats to the "Cache & Medical Data" file type, you need software like Microsoft Office or a similar tool.
About EXD files
The .EXD file format primarily serves as an ActiveX control cache file generated by Microsoft Office and Visual Studio. It temporarily stores control properties to speed up the loading of user forms and interface elements. Beyond Microsoft software, the .EXD extension is utilized for specialized data storage, including Ophthalmic retinal scan data by Heidelberg Engineering's EyeSuite (stored as a ZIP archive), Alveograph flour analysis databases using the JetDB format, Final Fantasy XIV game data tables, and ExamView test documents. Users often attempt to open or convert .EXD files because they encounter them when cleaning up disk space or extracting specialized medical and game data. The main disadvantage of the .EXD format is that its Microsoft variant is purely a temporary binary cache. It contains no user-editable content and requires a proprietary environment to function. The medical, game, and database variants are highly restrictive and often completely undocumented, locking your data inside specialized software. For standard ActiveX .EXD files, conversion is impossible and unnecessary. However, if your .EXD file originates from EyeSuite (which uses standard ZIP compression) or Chopin Alveograph (which uses Microsoft Jet Engine MDB / JetDB), you can often extract or convert the internal data. Converting the internal JetDB format to CSV or SQL is highly recommended for data portability. Because the .EXD extension is shared across wildly different, closed-source ecosystems, it is incredibly difficult for standard online tools to process them. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. However, convert.guru can still identify the file format, inspect the file, and show text or internal content. Just drag and drop your file to see what it is and convert it if supported. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format - like a ZIP archive or Jet Database - viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your EXD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert EXD file to TMP, TEMP, CACHE, LOG, BAK, OLD, NEW, PART, DOWNLOAD, CRDOWNLOAD, LOCK or PID, you can use Microsoft Office or similar software from the "ActiveX Control Cache" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DEVICE, CACHE, SOCK, SYMLINK, PID, MOUNT, FIFO, LOG, PIPE, TMP, JUNCTION or TEMP files to EXD, try Microsoft Office or another comparable tool in the "ActiveX Control Cache" category.
The EXD 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 EXD converter.