Extract text from GAR files
To convert your GAR file to another format, you need Farming Simulator or other Game software.
To convert other file formats to the "Game Data Archive" file type, you need software like Farming Simulator or a similar tool.
The .GAR extension serves two distinct but specialized communities: gamers and electrical safety technicians.
Most commonly, a .GAR file is a Game Archive used by Farming Simulator (developed by GIANTS Software) to store essential game assets like vehicle models, map textures, and physics scripts. These files (often named dataS.gar) are heavily compressed and encrypted containers designed to prevent casual tampering. The main challenge users face is that standard archive tools like WinRAR or 7-Zip cannot open them. To create mods or analyze game data, users must extract the contents into editable formats like ZIP, XML (code), DDS (textures), and OGG (audio) using specialized unpacking scripts or the GIANTS Editor.
Alternatively, in the industrial sector, .GAR files are PAT Data Files generated by Seaward portable appliance testers (such as the Apollo 600 series). These files contain binary records of electrical safety inspections. Users typically encounter friction because the file is unreadable without the proprietary PATGuard 3 software, which requires a paid license. To share test results with clients or analyze them in spreadsheets, users typically need to convert the .GAR data into CSV, Microsoft Excel (.XLSX), or PDF reports.
Convert.Guru analyzes your GAR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted DLC, TXT, ZIP, PDF, RAR, ACSM, GDM, I3D, PAK and NAR files.
If you want to convert GAR file to NAR, ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, LZMA, CAB, ACE or ARJ, you can use Farming Simulator or similar software from the "Game Asset Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert XXE, 7Z, Z, PAK, LHA, DEB, UUE, TAR, LZH, ZIP, PKG or RAR files to GAR, try Farming Simulator or another comparable tool in the "Game Asset Storage" category.
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 GAR converter.