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Q: How can I open .ENC files with Mountain Lion

I am new to iMac and having trouble already. By email, I have been sent a  document containing words but it has a .ENC extension which I can't open. Doing a search for .ENC extensions I have found four different results. One saying it is a video, which is obviously not correct. Another says that my system is corrupted in some way and has invalid registry entries. Another says it is associated with Black Ice Evidence. And yet another says it is an encrypted file. If it is caused by invalid registry entries, how I clean the registry? I was told iMacs don't need the sort of cleaning that Windows did.

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)

Posted on Aug 24, 2013 9:09 AM

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Q: How can I open .ENC files with Mountain Lion

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  • by a brody,

    a brody a brody Aug 24, 2013 9:12 AM in response to brbrown
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    Aug 24, 2013 9:12 AM in response to brbrown

    .ENC is very uncommon.  I would contact the sender and ask them what application they used to create the file.

    Macs as you learned do not have a registery per se. 

  • by brbrown,

    brbrown brbrown Aug 24, 2013 9:18 AM in response to a brody
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    Aug 24, 2013 9:18 AM in response to a brody

    Hello A. Thanks for the reply. I have already asked the sender to do that and am waiting for a reply. Just for information, I will post again when I get a reply. Regards. Brian

  • by Klaus1,Solvedanswer

    Klaus1 Klaus1 Aug 24, 2013 10:02 AM in response to brbrown
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    Aug 24, 2013 10:02 AM in response to brbrown

     

     

    ENC is a file extension for an UUE encoded file format used by the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet program to protect files from unauthorized changes. UUE is a type of binary to text encoding that came from the program UUEncode, which  encoded binary data for transmission across the UUCP mail system.

    UUencoding is a binary-to-text encoding method. CopySafe protected PDF files are saved in the ENC file format.

     

    The ENC file format is also used by Yahoo! Messenger as a part of the installation setup.

     

     

  • by brbrown,

    brbrown brbrown Sep 11, 2013 12:52 AM in response to Klaus1
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    Sep 11, 2013 12:52 AM in response to Klaus1

    Hello Klaus. Sorry about the delay coming back to you. I have been awaiting a reply from my sender but it appears he is not sure how it came about. Maybe he used Yahoo Messanger which I know he has got. Anyway, thanks for the information. That's useful to know.