POP Converter

Extract text from data and configuration files (POP)


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

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

Convert POP to another file type

To convert POP data files to another format, you need Various Scientific & Game Software or other Data software.

Convert a file to POP

To convert other file formats to the "Multipurpose Data Archive" file type, you need software like Various Scientific & Game Software or a similar tool.


About POP files

The .POP file extension is highly fragmented, utilized by several completely unrelated software applications to store proprietary scientific data or game configurations. In laboratory environments, a .POP file typically contains spectrophotometer measurements generated by SCINCO LabPro, Mecasys OptizenView, or ultrasonic flaw detector data from GE Phasor XS devices. It is also widely used as a flow cytometry population data file managed by FlowJo. In the gaming sector, .POP files act as population spawn scripts for the Mann vs. Machine mode in Valve's Team Fortress 2, or as disguised ZIP savegame archives for the game Songs of Syx. The primary disadvantage of the .POP format is this extreme lack of standardization. Scientific .POP files are heavily proprietary, locking your research data behind expensive software licenses and making it impossible to share findings with peers who lack the exact same hardware. Game-based .POP files suffer from OS recognition issues, confusing users who cannot open them natively. To make this data actionable, conversion is critical. For laboratory data, convert .POP to CSV or XLSX to analyze the metrics in standard spreadsheet software, or PDF for immutable archiving. For Team Fortress 2 configs, convert to standard TXT or JSON for easy editing. If you are dealing with a Songs of Syx save, converting it to a standard ZIP allows you to extract the contents.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert POP file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Various Scientific & Game Software or similar software from the "Scientific Data & Game Settings" 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 POP, try Various Scientific & Game Software or another comparable tool in the "Scientific Data & Game Settings" category.



The POP 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 POP converter.