USER Converter

Extract text from USER files


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

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

Convert USER to another file type

To convert your USER file to another format, you need Microsoft Visual Studio or other Settings software.

  • USER to INI
  • USER to CFG
  • USER to CONF
  • USER to CONFIG
  • USER to JSON
  • USER to XML
  • USER to YAML
  • USER to YML
  • USER to TOML
  • USER to ENV
  • USER to PROPERTIES
  • USER to RC

Convert a file to USER

To convert other file formats to the "User Configuration File" file type, you need software like Microsoft Visual Studio or a similar tool.

  • ZSHRC to USER
  • CONF to USER
  • RCFILE to USER
  • GITCONFIG to USER
  • RC to USER
  • PLIST to USER
  • BASHRC to USER
  • CONFIG to USER
  • PROFILE to USER
  • INI to USER
  • PREFS to USER
  • CFG to USER

About USER files

The .user file extension is primarily associated with Microsoft Visual Studio as a Project User Options File. These are text-based XML documents that store local, user-specific settings for a project, such as debugging configurations, breakpoints, and window layouts. Because they often contain absolute file paths specific to one machine (e.g., C:\Users\John\...), they are notoriously problematic if shared between developers and are typically excluded from version control systems like Git.

A secondary but significant use is in Hero Lab by Lone Wolf Development, where .user files contain custom game data (e.g., new spells or monsters) in an XML structure.

Users often need to convert these files to standard XML or JSON to debug build issues, migrate settings programmatically, or simply view the contents in a web browser without needing the original IDE installed. While the file is natively text, its specialized extension prevents most operating systems from opening it correctly by default.

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

Users also converted CSPROJ, XBF, VCPROJ and SETS files.



The USER 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 USER converter.