For preservation, file formats matter just as much as the storage medium.

When you purchase a new storage drive, it may tell you it needs reformatting, but which format is best? The main options for removable drives and memory cards these days are FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS, ...

A file extension is a suffix that is added to the end of a file name after a dot. It is usually two to four letters long. File extensions help Windows and other operating systems to know the standard ...

You may have noticed an online image format appearing in your browser lately, especially if you have a blog or like to save images you find online. It’s called WebP ...

You can open or import a surprising number of file formats into Microsoft Word. Not to be confused with file formatting, which—in most programs—refers to the design of a page, file formats are little ...