Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your UHA file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert UHA to another file type
To convert your UHA file to another format, you need WinUHA or other Compressed software.
Convert a file to UHA
To convert other file formats to the "Archive File" file type, you need software like WinUHA or a similar tool.
About UHA files
A .UHA file is a high-compression archive created by UHARC (Uwe Herklotz ARChiver), a tool famous in the early 2000s for squeezing large data sets - particularly multimedia and games - into incredibly small packages. While it offered superior compression ratios compared to ZIP or even early RAR versions, it came with a significant trade-off: extremely slow decompression speeds. Today, .UHA files are largely obsolete and problematic; modern operating systems do not support them natively, and standard utilities like WinRAR or the default 7-Zip installation often fail to open them without specific, hard-to-find plugins. Users typically encounter these files when recovering old backups or legacy software "rips." To make the contents accessible and future-proof, the best workflow is to convert the archive to a standard ZIP for maximum compatibility or 7Z for a balance of high compression and modern speed.
Convert.Guru analyzes your UHA file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert UHA file to ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, LZMA, CAB, ACE, ARJ or LHA, you can use WinUHA or similar software from the "High-Ratio Data Compression" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert XXE, 7Z, Z, PAK, LHA, DEB, UUE, TAR, LZH, ZIP, PKG or RAR files to UHA, try WinUHA or another comparable tool in the "High-Ratio Data Compression" category.
The UHA 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 UHA converter.