Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your RTFD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert RTFD to another file type
To convert RTFD documents to another format, you need Apple TextEdit or other Text software.
Convert a file to RTFD
To convert other file formats to the "Rich Text Bundle" file type, you need software like Apple TextEdit or a similar tool.
About RTFD files
The .rtfd (Rich Text Format Directory) is a macOS file bundle. It is used primarily by Apple TextEdit to save rich text alongside embedded attachments like images, spreadsheets, and PDFs. While it behaves like a normal document on a Mac, it is actually a hidden directory containing a primary text file and separate media assets. You can read more about the underlying text architecture on the Rich Text Format Wikipedia page. The fatal flaw of the .rtfd format is its lack of cross-platform compatibility. If you email an .rtfd file to a Windows or Linux user, it will typically arrive as an unreadable folder, a broken ZIP archive, or be rejected entirely by the mail server. It is strictly tied to the Apple ecosystem. To share these documents reliably, conversion is mandatory. For flawless visual archiving, convert to PDF. For text editing on a PC, convert to DOCX. If you only want to extract the embedded photos, convert to ZIP.
Convert.Guru analyzes your RTFD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert RTFD file to PDF, HTML, TXT, RTF, DOCX, JPG, DOC, MARKDOWN, ODT, PAGES, TEX or LATEX, you can use Apple TextEdit or similar software from the "Mac Rich Text Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert PDF, DOC, ASC, TODO, NFO, MEMO, README, DOCX, JPG, TXT, NOTE or RTF files to RTFD, try Apple TextEdit or another comparable tool in the "Mac Rich Text Storage" category.
The RTFD 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 RTFD converter.