GRV Converter

Extract text from GRV files


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

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

Convert GRV to another file type

To convert your GRV file to another format, you need Call of Duty or other Game software.

Convert a file to GRV

To convert other file formats to the "Script Container" file type, you need software like Call of Duty or a similar tool.


About GRV files

A .GRV file typically serves one of two distinct purposes, both of which are proprietary and difficult to access without specific software. Most commonly, it is a Game Script Archive used by developers like Treyarch in titles such as Call of Duty. These archives function as compressed containers - similar to ZIP files - holding compiled game logic, cutscene scripts, or raw asset data. They are not designed for user editing and often require specialized modding tools (like Wraith or Greyhound) to unpack into readable TXT or GSC files.

Alternatively, a .GRV file may be a legacy Office Groove File created by Microsoft Office Groove (now SharePoint Workspace). In this context, the file acts as a synchronization token or invitation, containing encrypted account metadata rather than the actual document content. Users attempting to "open" these often find them useless without the original Groove server infrastructure. Less frequently, .GRV files appear as 3D asset archives for the obsolete 3D Groove GX web game engine, requiring vintage players to view.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert GRV file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Call of Duty or similar software from the "Game Script Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to GRV, try Call of Duty or another comparable tool in the "Game Script Archive" category.



The GRV 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 GRV converter.