FLK Converter

Extract text from Portable Appliance Test results (FLK)


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

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

Convert FLK to another file type

To convert FLK Test results to another format, you need Fluke DMS or other Data software.

Convert a file to FLK

To convert other file formats to the "Hardware Test Results" file type, you need software like Fluke DMS or a similar tool.


About FLK files

A .FLK file primarily stores portable appliance test (PAT) results generated by electrical testing equipment like the Fluke 6500 PAT Tester or the Megger Multitest 6500. It may also serve as a database lock file for AccountEdge or a folder encryption file for Folder Lock. The main disadvantage of .FLK files is their proprietary, closed nature. Because they are raw binary data dumps from specialized testing hardware, standard web browsers, text editors, or generic spreadsheet tools cannot interpret them out of the box. Users often find themselves frustrated when they need to share electrical compliance reports with clients or auditors who do not own the expensive proprietary software. Lock files, by design, are intentionally inaccessible to prevent concurrent database edits or unauthorized access. To share PAT results, you typically need to convert the .FLK file to .CSV, .XLSX, or .PDF using the original manufacturer's reporting software. Standard online converters fail to process these files because only the original hardware companion software contains the proprietary logic to parse the binary measurement data.

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

Users also converted H2W, TMS and PTS files.


FAQ

If you want to convert FLK file to TMP, TEMP, CACHE, LOG, BAK, OLD, NEW, PART, DOWNLOAD, CRDOWNLOAD, LOCK or PID, you can use Fluke DMS or similar software from the "Portable Appliance Test Data" 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 FLK, try Fluke DMS or another comparable tool in the "Portable Appliance Test Data" category.



The FLK 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 FLK converter.