Questions tagged [file-conversion]
the process of translating the data in a file from one format or encoding to another
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iPhone 14 is not playing this audio, used ffmpeg to increase volume in audio
I recorded an audio using Audacity, then increased its volume 10 times using ffmpeg. When I am sending this audio as attachment to my friends to test, then people with older iPhones are able to hear ...
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Spotlights Store.db File
Long story short... We have a user whose Notes app bit the dust and they lost everything. Years of work and personal information. No backup either. When we do a search for the notes in Spotlight, ...
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Keeping date of original recording in converted video file
I have some video files that came from a digital video camera. If I examine the file using exiftool, I see an output that includes:
SB-iMac(~/Movies/trial) % exiftool f1.dv
ExifTool Version Number ...
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Is there some way to get all the text of a document into the clipboard?
I cannot select all text to copy to the clipboard on the Apple iPad I have so is there some way, like on an online website or an app, to get all the text from a document into the clipboard so that I ...
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How to convert large .mp4 file (~1.5GB) to .gif without my iMac crashing?
As it says in title. I couldn't find a way to convert it with a file conversion system already on my computer using a Google search, and nor could I find any online converters without a size limit.
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How can I convert a RAW (DNG) photo to a JPG on my iPhone?
I have an iPhone 14 Pro. There are some photos that were taken in RAW (DNG) format. I want those photos to be in JPG format. I have the Photos app's "Transfer to Mac or PC" setting on "...
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Conversion to APFS vs. reformatting
Wanting to convert an external HFS+ drive to APFS. This is said to be doable without losing the current content. I have no reason to doubt that. But I'm curious:
Is there any reason (any ...
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A lightweight free tool to convert SVG to PNG or JPG, that doesn't require Homebrew
I need a free tool to convert SVG images to PNG or JPG. I cannot use Homebrew, because this is a company computer and Homebrew is against the company policy. I'd like a GUI tool, but that isn't ...
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Can I loop an automator task for each file in a folder?
I have been tasked with converting lots of .numbers files to .pdf. Having exported manually did not satisfy me, obviously, so I dug around online and found an automator script (below). It obviously is ...
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Convert one .mbox file to PDF or ePub, locally
I downloaded a large batch of emails using Google Takeout. It generated a single .mbox file (about 2 MB).
I would like to read these emails in a single file on my Kobo eReader, which accepts file ...
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Is there a way to 'see under the hood' of a file without having to open it in program that supports it?
I have some files that are .zfab and .u3ma. They are fabrics for 3D garment rendering called CLO and Browsewear. These two companies also specializes in testing physical fabrics which is the part I'm ...
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Conversion script for Unicode combining characters?
I have Greek text that used combining characters for all accented letters. Some process that I was using with it converted these automatically to the single character equivalent. This causes a ...
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Consistent and robust options to convert ICNS files to PNG in macOS?
I've been having a terrible time getting sips and/or ImageMagick (convert) to consistently convert .icns files to .png.
I frequently hit very unclear errors when using sips to make the conversion (eg, ...
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Share Live Photos with non-apple (android and windows) users
I enjoy taking and reviving Live Photos in my iPhone. But I stumbled upon, when some familiar ones using non-apple devices wanted me to share those with them. How can I (batch) convert Live Photos ...
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Converting from .jpg to .pdf yields blank pages
I have some problems converting 180 JPG files into a single PDF. I'm using ImageMagick.
First, I resize the JPG files using mogrify -resize 75% *.jpg and the result looks fine.
After that, I run ...
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