Adobe (Macromedia) Director project
File type: Digital video and movie file
Files with dir extension can be quite often found as projects from Adobe Director video editing software for Mac and Windows.
Found 12 different file type records with the same dir filename suffix.
File type category:
Digital video and movie file
Date updated: December 6, 2023
File extension dir is used by video editing program Adobe Director (formerly Macromedia Director).
A typical .dir file contains movie files, which contain project data and other settings used for playing back the file.
MIME types:
application/x-director
Use a proper version of Adobe Director to open the .dir files.
Adobe Director is able to export .dir files to other formats.
Adobe Director (Microsoft Windows)
Adobe Director for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Adobe Director (Microsoft Windows)
Adobe Director for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Adobe Director (Microsoft Windows)
Adobe Director for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Adobe Director (Microsoft Windows)
Adobe Director for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
ProjectorRays Shockwave Decompiler (Microsoft Windows)
Adobe Creative Cloud (Multiplatform)
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: August 31, 2018
The dir file extension is also related to ArcView, a GIS software for Microsoft Windows operating system, developed by ESRI and used for some sort of INFO directory manager file.
Probably not meant to be accessed by the user.
Probably cannot be converted to anything else.
ArcGIS for Desktop Basic (ArcView) (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Backup file
Date updated: October 20, 2018
The dir file extension is associated with the CPS (Continuous Protection Server) is part of Symantec Backup Exec for Microsoft Windows.
The dir file contains backup created with the CPS solution.
Use compatible tools to work with *.dir files.
Probably cannot be converted to other formats.
Symantec Backup Exec (Microsoft Windows)
Symantec Backup Exec (Microsoft Windows)
Symantec Backup Exec (Microsoft Windows)
Symantec Backup Exec (Microsoft Windows)
Symantec Backup Exec (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: November 28, 2012
The DIR file extension is also related to VAX, a 32-bit computing architecture that supports an orthogonal instruction set (machine language) and virtual addressing (i.e. demand paged virtual memory). It was developed in the mid-1970s by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). DEC was later purchased by Compaq, which in turn was purchased by Hewlett-Packard.
The VAX has been perceived as the quintessential CISC processing architecture, with its very large number of addressing modes and machine instructions, including instructions for such complex operations as queue insertion/deletion and polynomial evaluation.
File type category:
System file
Date updated: December 30, 2024
mscreate.dir - his behavior is by design of the Setup program. The Setup program creates Mscreate.dir (a 0-byte hidden file) in each folder that Setup creates to indicate that the folder was created by Setup.
When you run Setup in maintenance mode and remove a component or click Remove All, Setup uses this file to determine whether an empty folder can be removed. If an empty folder does not contain this file, when you run Setup in maintenance mode, Setup will not remove this folder.
Probably not meant to be accessed by the user.
Probably cannot be converted to anything else.
Microsoft Windows (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Archive and compressed file
Game file
Date updated: July 11, 2024
The dir file extension is associated with the Grand Theft Auto 3, a 3D third person action shooter and racing video game for Microsoft Windows, mobile platforms and video gaming consoles.
The dir file stores game data, like sounds, music, models, maps and etc...
Probably not meant to be accessed by the user.
Probably cannot be converted to anything else.
Dragon UnPACKer (Microsoft Windows)
Dragon UnPACKer (Microsoft Windows)
Grand Theft Auto III (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Temporary file
Date updated: September 11, 2017
The dir file extension is associated with Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2007. The dir files are temporary files created during the backup process. They serve no purpose and can be deleted. Temporary files may be generated by computer programs for a variety of purposes. In most cases when a program cannot allocate enough memory for its tasks, or when the program is working on data bigger than architecture's address space, or as a primitive form of inter-process communication.
Examples:
0001000F.dir
00010005.dir
00010004.dir
00010003.dir
00010002.dir
00010001.dir
00010012.dir
It is not possible to open files with dir extension manually by the user.
Files with dir extension are not convertable.
Microsoft SharePoint Server (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: September 20, 2017
The dir file extension was also used by Procomm Plus, a program for Terminal emulation and file transfers from Symantec. A *.dir file used in this program contains saved dialing directory.
Files with dir extension are not openable manually by the user.
The dir extension files are not convertable.
Procomm Plus (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Miscellaneous file
Date updated: August 15, 2017
The dir file extension is associated with VAX CPS Backup program. It was an instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the mid-1970s. A 32-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) ISA, it was designed to extend or replace DEC's various Programmed Data Processor (PDP) ISAs. The VAX name was also used by DEC for a family of computer systems based on this processor architecture.
It is not possible to open files with dir extension.
The dir extenfion file is not convertable.
File type category:
Plugin, addon file
Date updated: January 9, 2019
The dir file extension is associated with the WebSTAR.
The dir file is used by WebSTAR to display a listing of files in a folder, via a browser.
The WebSTAR seems to be obsolete product.
Mime types:
application/x-directory
WebSTAR (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
File type category:
Archive and compressed file
Game file
Date updated: July 11, 2024
The DIR file extension is associated with the computer game Worms Armageddon.
The .dir files are game archives contains sounds, music, models or maps.
Dragon UnPACKer (Microsoft Windows)
Worms Armageddon (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: July 15, 2019
The dir file extension is related to the WOW!, a car diagnostic program for Microsoft Windows operating system, developed by Würth company.
The dir file stores some data used for internal purposes of WOW!.
Probably not meant to be accessed by the user.
Probably cannot be converted to anything else.
WOW! (Microsoft Windows)
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