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Saved game file
File type: Game file
Various sav files can be found in many computer games as the default game save files. These .sav files are used to store game positions that can be later loaded and the user can continue with gaming.
Found 6 different file type records with the same sav filename suffix.
File type category:
Game file
Date updated: November 8, 2023
File extension sav is generally used for various saved game files, also simply known as saves, which contain saved progress of player in a computer game.
Saved game file can be later loaded and the user can continue with gaming.
These sav files are used in numerous computer games but can only be used in the game where they were originally created.
Generally, .sav files are not meant to be opened directly, but from inside their respective programs. However some cheating programs may open .sav files and alter their data.
There is no way how to convert .sav file from one game to another (for example from OpenTTD to Chaser).
However, you can find game .sav file editor and export/edit some data from gamesaves for some purposes, like cheating, customizing etc.
Software applications that can open sav files:
Microsoft Windows
Multiplatform
Microsoft MS-DOS
Software apps that create sav files:
Microsoft Windows
Multiplatform
Microsoft MS-DOS
Software apps that recover sav files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that handle other tasks involving sav files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Settings, options, themes or skins file
Date updated: December 11, 2018
The sav file extension is also related to various configuration files found in many computer programs for files that contain saved state of machine, saved settings or other software configuration.
Similar file type to old CFG format used in MS-DOS.
This file type is used by too many various software. There is no universal answer to help.
This file type is not meant to be converted to anything else.
Software apps that manage or store settings in sav files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
File type category:
Temporary file
Date updated: November 22, 2023
File extension sav is also related to Free Download Manager, a free download accelerator and download manager for Windows.
This type of sav files contains incomplete and temporary data of downloaded file.
After the download is finished Free Download Manager will rename sav extension to the original file extension name.
It may be possible to import and continue with the download using the Free Download Manager.
Probably cannot be converted to anything else.
Software apps that create sav files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that handle other tasks involving sav files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Backup file
Date updated: April 5, 2019
The sav file extension is associated with the Parallels Desktop, a virtualization software for Apple Mac OS X (macOS) operating system, which enables users to create virtual computers on physical machines.
The sav file stores saved state image, created when the virtual machine is paused or suspended.
Use Parallels Desktop to open *.sav files.
Probably cannot be converted to other formats.
Software applications that can open sav files:
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Software apps that create sav files:
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Software applications that handle other tasks involving sav files:
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: June 10, 2019
The sav file extension is associated with the PSS E, an analysis program for Microsoft Windows operating system, developed by Siemens.
The sav file stores document created in the PSS E software.
Use PSS E to open *.sav files.
Probably can be exported to other formats.
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: November 9, 2023
File extension sav is associated with SPSS, a predictive analytics software, originally created by by SPSS Inc. and now owned and marketed by IBM.
The sav file contains data sets saved in the SPSS. These are binary files, which can only be used by the computing system which created them, such as Windows.
They can be transferred to any other computer running SPSS for Windows and will work fine. However, if you need to send your data file to someone using SPSS on, for example, UNIX, you will have to convert the file to a portable format.
Use SPSS to open the *.sav files.
To save your data as a portable file using menus is easy:
1. Choose Save As… from the File menu.
2. In the Save As Type box, choose SPSS Portable.
3. Fill in a filename with an extension of “.por” and click Save.
Software apps that import sav files:
Microsoft Windows
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