Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ORIG file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert ORIG to another file type
To convert ORIG Original files to another format, you need Various Software Applications or other Backup software.
Convert a file to ORIG
To convert other file formats to the "Original Backup Copy" file type, you need software like Various Software Applications or a similar tool.
About ORIG files
An .orig file is a generic backup copy created automatically before a software application modifies or updates an existing file. Programs like self-updating clients, imaging applications, and Unix patch utilities generate these files to preserve the original data in case an update fails. The most significant disadvantage of the .orig format is its generic nature. The extension tells your operating system absolutely nothing about the actual file contents. Because of this, you cannot simply double-click an .orig file to open it. The system will throw an error or prompt you to choose an application manually. Users often need to recover the internal data, which could be anything from a JPG or PNG image to a TIFF file or an EXE program executable like those backed up by the Psiphon client. The best target format entirely depends on the original file. Standard online converters fail to process .orig files because they rely blindly on the file extension rather than scanning the actual file structure. Our platform inspects the binary headers to reveal the true, hidden format, allowing you to seamlessly recover or convert your data.
Convert.Guru analyzes your ORIG file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert ORIG file to BAK, BACKUP, OLD, TMP, TEMP, ARC, ZIP, TAR, GZ, 7Z, RAR or ISO, you can use Various Software Applications or similar software from the "Original File Backup Copy" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SNAPSHOT, OLD, IMG, RESTORE, ISO, COPY, VMDK, TMP, VHD, BAK, ARCHIVE or BACKUP files to ORIG, try Various Software Applications or another comparable tool in the "Original File Backup Copy" category.
The ORIG 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 ORIG converter.