Convert Portable data files (POR) online for free
The converter easily converts your POR Data files to various formats - free and online. No IBM SPSS Statistics or or other Data software needed.
To convert other file formats to the "Statistical Data & Portfolio" file type, you need software like IBM SPSS Statistics or a similar tool.
A .POR file primarily serves as an SPSS Portable Data file. Developed by IBM for SPSS Statistics, this format was designed to transfer datasets safely between vastly different operating systems (like Windows PCs and Mainframes). It preserves the data dictionary, variable labels, and missing value codes. Another major use case is as an RPG character portfolio file for the tabletop role-playing software Hero Lab. In this context, it acts as a compressed container holding character sheets. Additionally, .POR files are used to store Portugol pseudocode in the Portugol Studio educational environment.
The main disadvantage of the .POR format is its proprietary and legacy nature. SPSS portable files rely on an outdated 80-byte text record structure originally designed for magnetic tape drives, making them cumbersome and unsupported by standard spreadsheet software. Opening them usually requires a costly IBM SPSS Statistics subscription. For Hero Lab files, your character data is locked entirely inside a specific gaming ecosystem, which can be frustrating if you just want to share a readable sheet with a Game Master.
To make this data accessible, you must convert it. For SPSS data, convert .POR to CSV or XLSX for immediate use in Microsoft Excel or Python pipelines. If you simply need a modern, fast SPSS format, convert to SAV. For Hero Lab portfolios, convert to ZIP to extract the raw XML data, or to PDF to print physical character sheets.
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If you want to convert POR file to TMP, TEMP, CACHE, LOG, BAK, OLD, NEW, PART, DOWNLOAD, CRDOWNLOAD, LOCK or PID, you can use IBM SPSS Statistics or similar software from the "Cross-platform statistical data transfer" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DEVICE, CACHE, SOCK, SYMLINK, PID, MOUNT, FIFO, LOG, PIPE, TMP, JUNCTION or TEMP files to POR, try IBM SPSS Statistics or another comparable tool in the "Cross-platform statistical data transfer" category.
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 POR converter.