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Details for file extension .DB are on this page. Because there is no central registry for file extensions and their associated programs there may be multiple entries on this page. And, because there are many (some say over a million) such associations not all may be listed here.

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Extension: DB
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
Windows Thumbnail Database		Microsoft Corporation
Specific Notes [What's This?]
File is THUMBS.DB. If a folder is set to display thumbnails for graphic files this is the file where they are stored. If you delete the file Windows will rebuild it the next time you visit that folder. The file is normally marked as hidden and a system file so you may have to change settings to see it. If preview thumbnails get out of sync with the actual files, just delete this file and let it be rebuilt. Recommended: Find DB errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
	Database	None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
Hex: D0 CF 11 E0 A1 B1 1A E1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3E 00 03 00 FE FF 09 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ASCII: ............................................
Program ID [What's This?]
dbfile
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 2879 last modified on 2008-11-08 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: DB
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
Windows Icon Database		Microsoft Corporation
Specific Notes [What's This?]
File is ICONCACHE.DB. Generally found in XP under the DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\ [USERNAME]\LOCAL SETTINGS\APPLICATION DATA\IconCache.db folder. If icons get out of sync with the actual files, just delete this file and let it be rebuilt. Recommended: Find DB errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
	Database	None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
Hex: 50 00 00 00 57 69 6E 34 ASCII: P...Win4
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 26051 last modified on 2008-11-08 and created on 2008-11-08.

Extension: DB
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
ANSYS Database
Specific Notes [What's This?]
Simulates multiphysical interactions. Recommended: Find DB errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 2865 last modified on 2003-01-14 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: DB
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
ArcView Object Database File		ESRI
Specific Notes [What's This?]
Also ODB. Recommended: Find DB errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		GIS Info
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 2866 last modified on 2004-06-23 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: DB
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
data by Synopsys Design Compiler, dbVista, Paradox, Smartware, XTreeGold
Specific Notes [What's This?]
(None) Recommended: Find DB errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
Note: This entry has not yet been verified by FILExt. It was submitted to the list and appeared to be accurate; however, no verification links have so far been found on the Internet. Please use this association data with that in mind.
This is record 2868 last modified on 2003-01-14 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: DB
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
dBASE IV or dBFast Configuration
Specific Notes [What's This?]
(None) Recommended: Find DB errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
Note: This entry has not yet been verified by FILExt. It was submitted to the list and appeared to be accurate; however, no verification links have so far been found on the Internet. Please use this association data with that in mind.
This is record 2869 last modified on 2003-01-14 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: DB
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
DIGIBooster Module/Song
Specific Notes [What's This?]
DIGIBooster is an 8 channel tracker written in Poland by Tap & Walt/INV for the Amiga. Recommended: Find DB errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
	Audio	Format
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
Hex: 44 49 47 49 20 42 6F 6F 73 74 65 72 20 6D 6F 64 75 6C 65 00 ASCII: DIGI.Booster.module.
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 15577 last modified on 2004-01-01 and created on 2004-01-01.

Extension: DB
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
Mozilla (Netscape) Client Certificate or Security Module Database		Mozilla.org
Specific Notes [What's This?]
Files: CERT7.DB and/or KEY3.DB for certificates and SECMOD.DB for the security module. Recommended: Find DB errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 2872 last modified on 2003-06-02 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: DB
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
MSWorks
Specific Notes [What's This?]
(None) Recommended: Find DB errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
Note: This entry has not yet been verified by FILExt. It was submitted to the list and appeared to be accurate; however, no verification links have so far been found on the Internet. Please use this association data with that in mind.
This is record 2870 last modified on 2003-01-14 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: DB
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
MultiEdit Configuration
Specific Notes [What's This?]
(None) Recommended: Find DB errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
Note: This entry has not yet been verified by FILExt. It was submitted to the list and appeared to be accurate; however, no verification links have so far been found on the Internet. Please use this association data with that in mind.
This is record 2871 last modified on 2003-01-14 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: DB
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
Novell GroupWise Addressbook Database
Specific Notes [What's This?]
(None) Recommended: Find DB errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 2873 last modified on 2003-01-14 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: DB
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
Oracle Database
Specific Notes [What's This?]
(None) Recommended: Find DB errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 2874 last modified on 2003-01-14 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: DB
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
Palm Zire Photo Database
Specific Notes [What's This?]
(None) Recommended: Find DB errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
Hex: 44 42 46 48 ASCII: DBFH
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 25020 last modified on 2008-05-17 and created on 2008-05-17.

Extension: DB
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
Paradox Ver 7 Table Database		Borland Software Corporation
Specific Notes [What's This?]
(None) Recommended: Find DB errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
application/x-paradox	Database	None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
DBFile
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 2867 last modified on 2005-03-28 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: DB
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
Progress Database File		Progress Software Corporation
Specific Notes [What's This?]
(None) Recommended: Find DB errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 2876 last modified on 2006-03-10 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: DB
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
SmartWare Office Pac File
Specific Notes [What's This?]
Requires login. Recommended: Find DB errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 2877 last modified on 2003-01-14 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: DB
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
Solid Database
Specific Notes [What's This?]
(None) Recommended: Find DB errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
		None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 2878 last modified on 2003-01-14 and created on 2003-01-14.

Extension: DB
Program and/or Extension Function [What's This?]		Company [What's This?]
SQL Anywhere Database		iAnywhere Solutions, Inc.
Specific Notes [What's This?]
SQL Anywhere is a package providing data management and data exchange technologies. SQL Anywhere offers databases that scale from 64-bit servers with thousands of users down to small handheld devices. A SQLAnywhere database may be composed of one to 13 dbspaces. The main system dbspace, which contains all of the system tables as well as (optional) user tables, typically has an extension of .DB. SQLAnywhere is commonly used as part of embedded or third party applications, and the vendor of each application may choose to use a different extension for the system dbspace. Additional dbspaces typically use a .DBS extension, but like the main system dbspace, vendors may choose to use a different extension. Recommended: Find DB errors now.
MIME Type [What's This?]	File Classification [What's This?]	Associated Links [What's This?]
	Database	None
Identifying Characters [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
Program ID [What's This?]
(None or Unknown)
General Notes [What's This?]
(None)
This is record 23371 last modified on 2007-01-07 and created on 2007-01-07.

System Info for File Extension .DB

FILExt has been given permission to display the file extension database produced by the Associate This! program. Some of that data has already been included into the main FILExt database; but, not all. Those entries which have not yet been incorporated are shown below in the hope that they will be of some use. Data collected by FILExt on registered file extensions from user systems is also in the display. Be aware this is raw data which may require further research on your part to fully understand. In particular, look at the Program ID. Often a company will put the program's name into the short ID that Windows uses to open registered file extensions. If that's not the case, look at the complete path to the EXE file. Often, programs will install themselves into directories that give either the program or company name. The program name itself may also be used as the EXE file name. These listings are particularly important since they represent listings that are in actual use by users who have sumbitted data to FILExt and therefore these listings can point you to the most likely candidate should there be multiple entries in the FILExt main database.

Program Name and MIME Type Info for File Extension .DB

FILExt has been given permission to display a Program Name/MIME type database collected by Anthony R. Nemmer. Some of that data has already been included into the main FILExt database; but, not all. Those entries which have not yet been incorporated are shown below in the hope that they will be of some use. Be aware this is raw data which may require further research on your part to fully understand. MIME type listings often contain the name of a program or, at a minimum, a type of file as the leading text in the MIME type.

General Info

• If the extension you are looking for is of the form .??_ the file is likely a compressed file and part of an install routine. When the install program runs it will expand the file and replace the underscore with the proper letter for the file type.
• If the file is sent as an audio file with any three-character extension it may be a dictation file where the extension is the dictator's initials; playable by BCB Voice Systems software (see ??? extension). The file could likewise be a dictation file in TrueSpeech format. Use Windows Sound Recorder and/or Media Player to play these back.
• If the extension you are looking for has a number at the end or is only a number and there were no results consider entering the same extension format using zero or one as some programs produce numbered split files but when the split can be extensive (e.g., .000-.999) only the first entry is in the database.

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