An mac file extension is associated with the Microsoft Access, a database management system for Windows. An mac file stores shortcut to objects in the database.

There are 4 other file types using
the MAC file extension!

empty icon.mac - Macro script

mac icon.mac - MacPaint bitmap image

empty icon.mac - Daqarta extended audio data

empty icon.mac - Maxima commands file

MAC file extension - Microsoft Access shortcut

What is mac file? How to open mac files?

File type specification:

Settings, options, themes or skins file type icon Settings, options, themes or skins file type

mac file icon: mac filetype icon

The mac file extension is associated with Microsoft Access, a database management system, part of Microsoft Office Suite, developed by Microsoft Corporation.

These mac files were used by some earlier version Microsoft Access for shortcut to some of the objects inside the database.

This mac file type entry was marked as obsolete and no longer supported file format.

This type of file is no longer actively used and is most likely obsolete. This is typically the case for system files in old operating systems, file types from long discontinued software, or previous versions of certain file types (like documents, projects etc.) that were replaced in higher versions of their original programs.

Updated: April 16, 2024

The default software associated to open mac file:

Microsoft Access icon

Microsoft Corporation logoMicrosoft Access  Microsoft Windows software

Company or developer:
Microsoft Corporation

A popular relational database management system for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Access is sold as stand-alone application, or as a part of Microsoft Office suite Professional edition and higher. Access uses own database format, to build databases, based on Jet Database Engine and also can import databases created by other applications.

Common file extensions for Access databases are accdb and mdb (previous MS Access versions).

Microsoft Office icon

Microsoft Corporation logoMicrosoft Office  Microsoft Windows software

Company or developer:
Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Office is popular productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Office contains a set of applications and services used to work with documents (Microsoft Word), spreadsheets (Microsoft Excel), presentations (Microsoft PowerPoint), databases (Microsoft Access) etc..

Microsoft Office can be also used to manage e-mail accounts, tasks, calendars and contacts (Microsoft Outlook). 

Help how to open:

Use Microsoft Access to open *.mac files.

How to convert:

Probably cannot be converted to other formats.

List of software applications associated to the .mac file extension

Recommended software programs are sorted by OS platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android etc.)
and possible program actions that can be done with the file: like open mac file, edit mac file, convert mac file, view mac file, play mac file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).

Hint:
Click on the tab below to simply browse between the application actions, to quickly get a list of recommended software, which is able to perform the specified software action, such as opening, editing or converting mac files.

Software that open mac file - Microsoft Access shortcut

Programs supporting the exension mac on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about Microsoft Access for open mac file action.

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