How to open this DB file

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I have a few database files with  db extension and I want to take a peek  However I don t know what program should I use to open the files  I ve found a similar quesiton that says checking the header of the db file could reveal the name of the database-program type  What I ve found is  FLDB   Anyone have any clue what kind of database file can this be   Edit   Trying to give more hint  This is a program of a car navigation system and it knows 8 languages  I m trying to localize it to my language  There are lots of  db and two  gdb files witch  probably  contains this data

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I don t think there is a way to tell which program to use from just the  db extension  It could even be an encrypted database which can t be opened  You can MS Access  or a sqlite manager   Edit  Try to rename the file to  txt and open it with a text editor  The first couple of words in the file could tell you the DB Type   If it is a SQLite database  it will start with  SQLite format 3

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You can use a tool like the TrIDNet - File Identifier to look for the Magic Number and other telltales  if the file format is in it s database it may tell you what it is for   However searching the definitions did not turn up anything for the string  FLDB   but it checks more than magic numbers so it is worth a try   If you are using Linux File is a command that will do a similar task   The other thing to try is if you have access to the program that generated this file  there may be DLL s or EXE s from the database software that may contain meta information about the dll s creator which could give you a starting point for looking for software that can read the file outside of the program that originally created the  db file

[database] How to open this .DB file?

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