How can I open a cab file on my macbook pro?

tiny3315 wrote:

I'm new to the Mac world and I'm having trouble opening a medical grade CD that contains CAB files/images. Can anyone help me out?

Cab files are compressed (windows) files, the paid version of Stuffit can open them and you may be able to use them if you have compatible programs on your Mac, do you know what format the images are in.

tiny3315 wrote:

I'm having trouble opening a medical grade CD that contains CAB files/images.

More info is required. As a rule, medical imaging uses the DICOM format; the .cab files you are seeing could be the install archive for a DICOM viewer. Try OsiriX

OsiriX

<http://www.osirix-viewer.com/>

There are other DICOM viewers for Mac OS X:

iRad

<http://irad.sourceforge.net/>

Escape Medical Viewer

<http://www.escape.gr/>

I should be rather surprised if the images were in .cab files. If you can't access the CD with any of these viewers, check with the imaging dep't where the CD was written about the format was used. My bet is DICOM.

Some things that claim to be able to open these Microsoft files.

In no particular order...

keka

cabextract

StuffIt Expander

The Unarchiver

Here are some suggestions:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=630706

Stuffit Expander (a free download) should do the job tho'.

It sounds like you downloaded a version for Stuffit which is not Lion compatible. Are you sure you got the right one?

Use the AppStore to get Stuffit Expander, then you'll be sure to have a version that works.

By opening them

We are a Mac only family and so is our Doctor. The wife had an MRI in that format and the Dr said the CD was useless to him because nothing would allow them to open it with the correct information.