Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SFV file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert SFV to another file type
To convert SFV Checksums to another format, you need QuickSFV or other Data software.
Convert a file to SFV
To convert other file formats to the "Checksum File" file type, you need software like QuickSFV or a similar tool.
About SFV files
An .sfv (Simple File Verification) file stores CRC32 checksums for a list of files. Users create these files to verify that large downloads or multi-part archives (like RAR files) are complete and uncorrupted. You can process these files using utilities like QuickSFV or QuickPar. Because they are plain text, you can also open them in basic text editors like Windows Notepad or Notepad++. The main disadvantage of the .sfv format is that it relies on CRC32. This algorithm is fast but not cryptographically secure, meaning it cannot detect malicious tampering, only accidental corruption. Furthermore, standard operating systems do not natively execute .sfv files on double-click without third-party tools. You cannot simply convert an .sfv file to an md5 or sha256 file to upgrade security, because the original source files are required to generate new hashes. However, you can convert the .sfv file to TXT or CSV to make the file list and checksum data easier to read and parse in a spreadsheet.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SFV file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert SFV file to SRT, TMP, TEMP, CACHE, LOG, BAK, OLD, NEW, PART, DOWNLOAD, CRDOWNLOAD or LOCK, you can use QuickSFV or similar software from the "File Integrity Verification" 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 SFV, try QuickSFV or another comparable tool in the "File Integrity Verification" category.
The SFV 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 SFV converter.