Open up this DAT converter on your computer and tap '+ Video' button to load DAT file that you wanna convert. Next, follow the below guide to easily convert DAT to MP4 Mac/Win. How to Convert (Large) DAT File to MP4 on Mac/WinĪhead of DAT to MP4 conversion, you should free download this DAT video converter on your Mac computer (macOS Big Sur included) if you are a Windows user, you ought to download Windows version (Win 10 supported). Also, if anyone has any more insight into the Clarion DB structure (important files, easy ways to determine linked fields from table to table, etc.This media converter doesn't have any advantage for DAT short video conversion, but when it comes to large DAT file (like 1GB, 3GB, 10GB.), its conversion speed trounces other competitors at 5X faster thanks to advanced Intel/Nvidia/AMD hardware acceleration tech! Give it a chance to prove itself! Thanks again to everyone, this has got me started, which was the first big hurdle. I believe this to be an error due to the size of the field or type of data. I tried importing from dBase III, but got the same results. When I bring this field into Excel, it looks fine, but when I import to Access from Excel, it looks like this - 1.5010960E+11. Any suggestions?Ģ) One of the pieces of data is a float in the dBase III files. So I added columns in the Excel for these fields, but really feel unsure about whether they should be there at all.

What this highlighted is that some fields which were in the *.dat files apparently were blank and therefore were not transferred to the dBase III files. I could then import into Access with no field name issues. in the conversion, the field names were changed to first three letters of the table name and then some characters from the field name not all, some) - I corrected this by viewing the *.dat files field names then converting the dBase III files to Excel and editing the field names there.

ġ) the field names came over a bit scrambled (i.e.

I found another program CCVT.exe that allowed me to convert the Clarion *.dat files to dBase III files, which could be viewed in Excel or imported into Access. Since the application is a shareware item, I was able to only view/export 100 files. OK, I tried the viewer that was suggested by OlafDoshke and was able to open the files.

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