topic Re: QVD file is being shown in Notepad format in QlikView

QVD file is being shown in Notepad format

varunreddy — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:44:57 GMT

Hi Guys,

I have tried to open QVD with Notepad and my QVD file is showing in the form of HTML in notepad. Is there a way I can change the format back. I am unable to extract data from that notepad.

Can anyone help me

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

Varun

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Re: QVD file is being shown in Notepad format

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:53:40 GMT

QVD files have an xml header, which is what you will be seeing that looks like html.

The data itself is not stored in human readable format, so you won't be able to read it using a text editor like notepad.

I only read data from QVD files using QlikView/Sense as that is what they were designed to be read by.

What are you trying achieve ?

Re: QVD file is being shown in Notepad format

varunreddy — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:57:34 GMT

I am trying to extract data from QVD. While I was trying to extract selecting QVD, I am getting zero rows. But the QVD has 40,000 rows.

This is how it is showing

Re: QVD file is being shown in Notepad format

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:00:55 GMT

I would guess you unfortunately have a corrupt qvd file.

Re: QVD file is being shown in Notepad format

sunny_talwar — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:01:08 GMT

Can you not recreate your QVD by running the application that created the QVD in the first place?

Re: QVD file is being shown in Notepad format

varunreddy — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:03:16 GMT

Even after deleting the existing QVD file and rerun the QV file, I am getting the QVD in notepad format.

Re: QVD file is being shown in Notepad format

sunny_talwar — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:08:23 GMT

As per my knowledge, your only option is to download EasyQlik QViewer and associate a qvd with this program

EasyQlik QViewer - viewer for QVD files

Re: QVD file is being shown in Notepad format

sunny_talwar — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:09:00 GMT

Re: QVD file is being shown in Notepad format

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:46:02 GMT

Could elaborate on what you mean by "getting the QVD in notepad format." ?

Re: QVD file is being shown in Notepad format

Peter_Cammaert — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 22:04:56 GMT

I don't understand a thing of this discussion.

I only know that a STORE statement like this:

STORE table INTO DQIM_Metrics.QVD (txt);

will create a comma-separated-value file with a QVD extension. That may be why the file won't be recoqnized as a QVD when you try to load it in the Script Editor. Try with the "Delimited" file type, and see what you get in the import dialog.

On the other hand, saying that the content looks like HTML may mean that there is indeed XML content in the QVD file. As Bill already explained, a QVD file has an XML header that documents the fields and content details of the QVD. Because you say that you cannot import the "QVD" file as a QVD-formatted file, this leads me to think that there is only XML or HTML data in this file. Did you try a Script Editor import with these file types checked? They are available immediately above and below the QVD radio button...

There is no such thing as a Notepad file format. A notepad icon in Windows Explorer means that your file associations have gone haywire. Windows doesn't recognize files based on their content. That's a Unix thing.

It would be a big help if you could post a screenshot of Notepad with this so-called QVD loaded.

Peter

Re: QVD file is being shown in Notepad format

rabbani_sk — Mon, 18 May 2020 18:23:29 GMT

Hi Varun/all,

If i understand your question correctly, your requirement is to change back the original look and feel of the qvd file.

In order to do that, follow the below steps,

Right click on the qvd file--> Open with--> Choose another App-->Look for another app on this PC-->then you can browse to any qlikview application (by selecting All files option)--> open any application and close it .

Again go to .qvd file and right click -->open with --> you can find the .qvd original file format option just select and it will revert back the look and feel of your .qvd file .

Thanks and regards,

Rabbani Shaik

Re: QVD file is being shown in Notepad format

Edge — Tue, 19 May 2020 07:29:32 GMT

Hi,

just wanted to add my opinion here as well. There is no qvd with notepad format. The reason that qvd file shows the notepad icon is that notepad is the program assotiated with opening it in the windows system.

See what I mean in the attached images. What I did is I created a text file (.txt format). Then changed it's format to (.piggback) which caused it's icon to change to a white paper. When I opened it with notepad and choose to have notepad as the default program, the file icon changed to the notepad icon.