"Lyle Fairfield" <lylefairfield@aim.com> wrote:

>On Feb 18, 12:16 am, "Anykindjob.com" <fwh...******.com> wrote:
>> I tried filext before I posted here. I am still at lost. The filext
>> results did not seem to tell me a software to edit a .BLB file.
>
>Anyone may and can call a file anything he/she wishes, provided the
>name meets the requirements of the OS. One can change the name of
>northwinds.mdb to northwinds.blb and open it in Access. One can set
>the default open for ".blb" files to Access, or Notepad or whatever we
>want. These associations were not set down my God on stone tablets.
>They are entirely arbitrary, although there are strong conventions
>that are followed in general.
>
>We know from other posts that the ACT application uses the extension
>BLB. This might be a place to start. But there are other applications
>that separate their database files in data files, index files, and
>blob files; the blob files are named with the ".blb" extension.
>You might find some useful information by right clicking the file (in
>Explorer) and examining its properties. But the only way to be sure
>what might open the file is to research its history (who/what created
>it) and to try various applications. Of course, many applications will
>open the file. You probably want to find one that makes sense of
>whatever is in the file.
>Only you, who have the file can answer, "What can open it?"
>I can make a png file of Brittney. I can name it Brittney.blb. The
>greatest expert in the world can tell you it should open with ACT. But
>he/she will be wrong. It will open with "NeedsHelp".
>

What you say is true and FileAlyzer is a great program to find out
just what a file is
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/f...zer/index.html
among other things it shows the header of the file in question (file
type)

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Pita Ten gives it a try
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3C7E8ru-Ul0