Opening a CRASH File

The CRASH file type is primarily associated with Crash Reporter.

CRASH	File extension: CRASH
	File type:	crash log/report

What is a CRASH file?

CRASH files mostly belong to Crash Reporter by Apple. CRASH is the filename extension of a crash log generated by an operating system or a program when an error occurs. It usually contains delimiter-separated values such as the name of the application or service that crashed, cause of crash, device information, timestamp, path to executable, operating system etc. Operating systems, program, and devices which save crash logs/reports in CRASH files include:

• iOS


• iPadOS


• macOS


• Steam


• Sibelius


• Media Composer


• Pro Tools


• Digital Combat Simulator


• Tebis


• CodeKit


• Cisco TelePresence


• Cisco Catalyst

Applications such as Tebis save their crash logs (CRASH file) in binary format.

How do you open CRASH files?

You need a suitable software like Crash Reporter to open a CRASH file. Without proper software you will receive a Windows message "How do you want to open this file?" or "Windows cannot open this file" or a similar Mac/iPhone/Android alert. If you cannot open your CRASH file correctly, try to right-click or long-press the file. Then click "Open with" and choose an application. You can also display a CRASH file directly in the browser:. Just drag the file onto this browser window and drop it.

Online CRASH Text Viewer

Choose your .crash file to view

or drag and drop it here

Online File Viewer

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How to extract texts from CRASH files or capture a screenshot to PDF, JPG, DOCX, TXT, ...

1. To do so, click the "Choose your .crash file to view" button above.
2. Your CRASH file will then be displayed in the browser.
3. Now click on "Save as..." at the top of the page.
4. Then choose the file format (e.g. JPG, PDF, DOCX, TXT, ...) you want.
5. Your file will be converted and downloaded.

CRASH file extension format:

Every file has a defined file format, i.e. how the data is arranged in the file. Each file format has a unique extension and almost always a unique signature. For example, Microsoft Word documents have the extension .docx and the signature (usually the first 3 characters in this file) PK. If the file extension does not match the file format, double-clicking on the file will cause an error upon opening. So you need a detailed analysis of a file to find out the format and the associated program. Our evaluation of the CRASH files looks like this:

You will often come across the CRASH file type. This includes different formats for different programs. However, the following two file formats are common:

• 40% of all CRASH files start with the bytes Incident Identifier: , which are crucial for this file format. The contents of these files can even be read by a human. A typical file size is 77 KB. The file type was developed only in the last few years. Several words can almost always be found in the files, e.g. Incident Identifier, Hardware Model, Process, iPhone, CrashReporter Key and Path. A common filename is crashlog.crash. These files are attributed to phone, facebook, messenger, instagram, apple, fault, user, snapchat, mobile, daily and next.
• 25% of all CRASH files belong to Mac OS X crash log. If you open these files in a text editor, you can view and read the content yourself. CRASH files can be up to 220 MB in size, but are often around 37 KB - 210 KB. The following keywords are characteristic: Path, Process, Product Version, exe, C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe and Identifier. Files like these are sometimes connected to adobe, desktop, premiere, book, afterfx, encoder and media.

All other CRASH files (35%) have no uniform format, often e.g. JSON, Application, Version, Date and book. Tagged as ofwarships, world, tebis, stats, dgdaemon or agent. If you want to find out what your CRASH file contains, drag and drop it onto this page.