numcal. / OLD FILES — PLATE 03

Open the files time forgot.

Found a floppy’s worth of documents no modern program will open? Drop them here. Free, no signup, nothing retained.

Drop your old file here — any format below
or click to browse — 25 MB, or 100 MB for Outlook mail
RESCUE AS

Formats we rescue

Field notes

How faithful is the conversion?

Text, tables and basic formatting come through well; elaborate layouts come through approximately. The engines are the Document Liberation Project filters — two decades of reverse-engineering work, the same ones inside LibreOffice — and they’re the best free readers these formats have. For a file that opens nowhere else, approximate beats gone.

What happens to my file?

It’s written to a private temporary folder for the few seconds the conversion engine needs, then deleted — nothing is retained, logged or shared. No account, no email, no “files kept for 24 hours” fine print. These are often someone’s letters, family records or old business files; we treat them accordingly.

My file isn’t on the list

The Mac filter alone reads some forty formats — MacWrite, WriteNow, Nisus, old Mac Word, and more; rename the mystery file to .cwk and try. We also accept FreeHand (.fh), QuarkXPress 3–4 (.qxd), PageMaker (.pmd/.p65) and StarOffice (.sdw/.sdc/.sda) files — the readers are installed, we just haven’t met enough of them in the wild to make promises. Worst case you get a clear error. Or tell us what you’ve got — adding a format is usually easy.