Extract text from Encrypted files (VVV)
To convert VVV files to another format, you need Virtual Volumes View or other Encoded software.
To convert other file formats to the "Encrypted File or Catalog" file type, you need software like Virtual Volumes View or a similar tool.
The .vvv file extension is most notoriously known as an encrypted data file created by the TeslaCrypt ransomware. When a computer is infected, TeslaCrypt locks standard files (like DOCX, JPG, or PDF) using AES encryption and renames them with the .vvv extension. A secondary, harmless use of the .vvv extension is the Virtual Volumes View Catalog file, created by Virtual Volumes View to store metadata about files and folders located on offline disks.
If your file is a ransomware-encrypted file, it is fundamentally restricted. It is practically useless without the correct decryption key. You cannot simply use a standard format converter to change it back to a JPG or PDF. Standard online converters fail to process it because the underlying bytes are mathematically scrambled, not just reformatted. You need a specialized decryption tool, such as TeslaDecoder, to restore the original files.
If the file is a Virtual Volumes View catalog, it is a closed, proprietary database format designed specifically for the FSoft application. It cannot be opened by standard text editors or generic database viewers. Users often want to convert these catalog files to CSV or XML to analyze their offline disk archives in spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. However, because it relies on proprietary structures, direct conversion is extremely challenging without the original software. We can analyze the file signature to determine if it is a harmless catalog database or an encrypted ransomware file. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or extracting text may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your VVV file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted BOL files.
If you want to convert VVV file to BOL, DB, SQLITE, SQLITE3, MDB, ACCDB, DBF, ODB, FDB, GDB, MYD or FRM, you can use Virtual Volumes View or similar software from the "Ransomware Encrypted or Catalog" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert NDF, SQLITE3, BAK, RDB, SQL, DB4, MDF, MDB, LDF, DB, DB3 or SQLITE files to VVV, try Virtual Volumes View or another comparable tool in the "Ransomware Encrypted or Catalog" 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 VVV converter.