OPTIONS Converter

Extract text from Settings files (OPTIONS)


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

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

Convert OPTIONS to another file type

To convert OPTIONS Settings to another format, you need Borland Delphi or other Settings software.

Convert a file to OPTIONS

To convert other file formats to the "Configuration Profile" file type, you need software like Borland Delphi or a similar tool.


About OPTIONS files

The .options file is a software configuration or settings file used to store user preferences, project configurations, or game profile data. It is primarily utilized by software development environments like Borland Delphi, web browsers like Google Chrome, and PC games such as the Ubisoft Anno series. The main disadvantage of the .options format is its lack of standardization. It is highly specific to the application that created it and completely meaningless to other software. While some .options files are plain text, others, like those used in Anno games, are actually compressed using zlib. This makes the files unreadable in standard text editors and requires a $0/month workaround of extracting the file first. If you need to make edits or audits, your best conversion targets are plain text formats like TXT, JSON, or XML. Because this is a specialized format, standard online converters often fail to process it due to the lack of a universal schema. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible using convert.guru. Our analysis engine will inspect the file headers. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format like plain text or a compressed zlib archive, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert OPTIONS file to INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV, PROPERTIES or RC, you can use Borland Delphi or similar software from the "Software Configuration Settings" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to OPTIONS, try Borland Delphi or another comparable tool in the "Software Configuration Settings" category.



The OPTIONS 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 OPTIONS converter.