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REF

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Reference

File type: Settings, options, themes or skins file

Files with ref extension can be quite often found as various reference files from numerous different applications.

Found 3 different file type records with the same ref filename suffix.

What is ref file?

File type category:
Settings, options, themes or skins file

Date updated: June 5, 2020

File extension ref is used by many various applications for its reference files.

For example .ref files are used in some games, like Train Simulator. But these files can be found in many programs for various purposes.

How to open ref file?

Probably not meant to be accessed by the user.

How to convert ref file?

Probably cannot be converted to anything else.

Suggested software to open ref file:

Associated software actions with the ref file

Software apps that import ref files:

Multiplatform

Software apps that manage or store settings in ref files:

Ad-Aware signature data

File type category:
Various data file

Date updated: March 22, 2019

The ref file extension is associated with the Ad-Aware, an application, which is used to protect computers against attacks of malicious software, developed by LavaSoft.

The ref file contains signature data.

How to open ref file?

Probably not meant to be accessed by the user.

How to convert ref file?

Probably cannot be converted to anything else.

Suggested software to open ref file:

Associated software actions with the ref file

Software applications that handle other tasks involving ref files:

Microsoft Windows

Pro/ENGINEER temporary data

File type category:
Temporary file

Date updated: July 29, 2019

The ref file extension is used for temporary files in Pro/ENGINEER.

Temporary files may be created by computer programs for a variety of purposes; principally when a program cannot allocate enough memory for its tasks, when the program is working on data bigger than architecture's address space, or as a primitive form of inter-process communication.

How to open ref file?

In vast majority of cases, users cannot access temporary saved data.

How to convert ref file?

Temporary files are usually not meant to be converted to anything else.

Suggested software to open ref file:

Associated software actions with the ref file

Software applications that handle other tasks involving ref files:

Related file extensions