Reader Question (and More)
Well, for the first time in a while, there was a new one on me..
A reader wrote in..
Q: “My archived bank statements download as .daa files. What’s that and how do I open? Do I need to convert them to something else to be sure to be able to view them in the future?
Thanks,
D”
A: I have never met a .daa file, nor heard of it (I confess) and had to look it up (I understand it is common in the world of Torrents, which I do not do).
“Direct Access Archive, or DAA, is a proprietary file format developed by PowerISO Computing for disk image files. The format supports features such as compression, password protection, and splitting to multiple volumes. Popular disk image mounting programs such as Alcohol 120% and Daemon Tools currently do not support the mounting of DAA images.
Currently there is no published information about the format. Among mainstream applications, it can be opened or converted with PowerISO, MagicISO, AnyToISO and UltraISO. Various free open source packages are also available to convert DAA to ISO images.”
I believe the programs mentioned retail for $30, so I would be inclined to research that last sentence were I required to deal with .daa’s (you might try daa2iso, but I cannot vouch for that). But more likely, I would be having a word with my bank, and looking on their website for another format to download (such as PDF). It is my humble opinion that your bank is doing you no favors by choosing to use this format.
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Yea, I would be having a serious chat with my bank too. ROFL..A torrent extension? What were they thinking? Maybe because Adobe Reader is always having updates as it is always being targeted. But then, who uses reader anyway? I haven’t in years.
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delenn13,
My understanding is that it is a proprietary, compressible, image storage format, useful for large/complex data. I can see how the bank might think it a good choice for archives…
I do not know that it is used by the Torrent crowd, as that is something I have completely avoided (almost every unit that has hit my bench for malware removal had LimeWire on it… and I mean, like 98%, over recent years) but I did read that during my “quick research”. To me, Torrents are, at best, malware-risky and ethically questionable, and there’s nothing on there I want that badly.
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