Lay it on me tech-like friend

[grendelsden]

My resources have come dry and I'm reaching out to all you tech-types for help:

Does anyone have any knowledge of the file extension .hi and what exactly it is for?

Comments

[tjcrowley]

The only thing I've ever seen this used for is the high score files in some video games.

[grendelsden]

That's what all of my digging around was pointing to, but I wanted to see if there was something I missed. Thanks.

[staticvoid]

.HI? Not come across that one. Could it be an extension that got chopped off, something that was originally, say, .HIV? (as in registry hive file)

[grendelsden]

Nope. It's .hi only.

At some point it was thought that it was a FreeHand file extension, but I didn't think that sounded right since FreeHand extensions are .fh followed by the version number. So I started digging around and found no reference to FreeHand or any other image editing program.

Most of the searching around lead to "High scores (various games)", which leads to what the above reply mentioned.

[staticvoid]

Can you give some examples of what you're seeing, with the full filename and directory path?

[sindia]

ive gotten those before, i'm pretty sure that they exist only to anger and annoy.

[grendelsden]

In what context? I need actual information for this.

[sindia]

i want to say that it was in a collection of *cough*ill gotten music files*cough*
but since its a format that i don't know what does and no apps on my computer recognise, all i can say is that they irked me.

[grendelsden]

Nope, definitely not music files.

There's a very good chance that they are very, very old image files. Probably from '93 to '95. At least that's the most feasible explanation I have had yet from my core of TechGeek references.

Either way I think I won't be able to do anything with the files.

[maskm]

A .hi file?! A .HI FILE!??!!

My God man! Douse the computer in holy water now and call an archbishop.

I can only pray it's not too late...

[grendelsden]

Can we be a little more forthcoming?