Files with 002 extension are used by some compression and archive utilities for one part (second) of a split multi-volume archive. In order to extract the content of split archive, you first have to gather all its pieces and start the extraction of the first archive.
There are 5 other file types using
the 002 file extension!
.002 - Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 temporary file
.002 - Drive Image 5 setup data
.002 - International S-57 Hydrographic Data Electronic Navigation Chart
.002 - Winfunktion Mathematic v8.0 Julia fractal
.002 - Generally split archive or backup file (part 002)
002 file extension - Compressed file from a multi-volume archive (part 2)
What is 002 file? How to open 002 files?
File extension 002 is associated with several compression tools, which are using, or did use in the past, the 002 file extension for its multi-volume archive files, such as WinRAR (see part2.rar) or 7-Zip (see 7z.002).
The general file sequence is 001, 002, 003, etc.. and you will need all parts of the multi-volume archive to successfully extract the content.
In some cases, the 002 file extension doesn't mean the second part of the multi-volume archive, but the second part of the divided file.
The first thing you have to do is to merge split files (001, 002, 003 etc.) into one file (usually split archive) via split tools. Afterwards you can use a compression utility to extract data from the archive.
The default software associated to open 002 file:
Company or developer:
win.rar GmbH
A file compression and archive utility. Along with WinZip and 7-Zip is one of the most common compression programs for Windows. Its native format is as the name implies RAR and uses rar file extension.
WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.
WinRAR is also able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives. It consistently makes smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs. WinRAR offers a graphic interactive interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line interface.
Company or developer:
Igor Pavlov
A free file archiver developed by Igor Pavlov featuring higher compression ratios with LZMA and LZMA2 compression.
It is mainly available for Windows platform (for Mac and Linux are available command line tools) and is the primary program to handle 7z archives. However, also supports various compression file formats.
Supported formats:
Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z
List of software applications associated to the .002 file extension
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and possible program actions that can be done with the file: like open 002 file, edit 002 file, convert 002 file, view 002 file, play 002 file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).
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Software that open 002 file - Compressed file from a multi-volume archive (part 2)
Programs supporting the exension 002 on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about listed programs for open 002 file action.
