Extract text from Lotus Organizer files (OR6)
To convert OR6 Organizer files to another format, you need Lotus Organizer or other Data software.
To convert other file formats to the "Personal Information Manager" file type, you need software like Lotus Organizer or a similar tool.
The .OR6 file is a legacy personal information manager (PIM) database created by Lotus Organizer version 6. It stores a user's contacts, calendar events, to-do lists, and notes in a single file. This format is natively opened and managed only by Lotus Organizer, a software originally developed by Lotus Software and later acquired by IBM.
Users need to convert .OR6 files because Lotus Organizer is obsolete and no longer supported on modern operating systems. The format is strictly proprietary, meaning modern email clients and calendar apps cannot read it directly, leaving users locked out of decades of personal data. The best target formats for this data are CSV (for contacts), VCF (vCard for individual contacts), or ICS (iCalendar for events). Converting to these standard formats ensures compatibility with modern systems, though custom categories or complex repeating events may lose formatting.
This file format is exceptionally difficult to open or convert because it is a closed, binary database. Standard online converters fail because they lack the specific parsing logic. Often, only the original Lotus Organizer software can properly read or export the data. However, just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. convert.guru can still identify the file format, inspect the file, and show text or internal content. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your OR6 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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If you want to convert OR6 file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Lotus Organizer or similar software from the "PIM Database Storage" 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 OR6, try Lotus Organizer or another comparable tool in the "PIM Database Storage" category.
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