Open backup.ab with an HexEditor, and replace the first 24 Bytes (0x18) with 1F 8B 08 00 00 00 00 00 and save as backup.tar.gz . It can then be opened with WinRAR or any other extractor tool.

May 15, 2017 · I do not understand the difference between the "ab" and "rb+" modes when using fopen() in C. Why would I choose one instead of the other?

In Python's built-in open function, what is the difference between the modes w, a, w+, a+, and r+? The documentation implies that these all allow writing to the file, and says that they open the fi...

Apr 24, 2023 · After I use abe.jar to decompress, the file can be opened normally, and the .ab file is unencrypted.

Nov 20, 2016 · The initial file position for reading is at the beginning of the file, but output is always appended to the end of the file. With the "b" tacked on to make DOS happy.

When you say "replace the old content that's in the file with the new content", you need to read in and transform the current contents data = file.read(). You don't mean "blindly overwrite it …

Nov 19, 2018 · Code: file ('pinax/media/a.jpg', 'wb')File mode, write and binary. Since you are writing a .jpg file, it looks fine. But if you supposed to read that jpg file you need to use 'rb' …

Jan 16, 2011 · 273 You need to open the file in append mode, by setting "a" or "ab" as the mode. See open (). When you open with "a" mode, the write position will always be at the end of the …

Mar 15, 2015 · The archive format itself in a .ab file is essentially tar with modern ustar / pax extensions, though with metadata-encoded file naming rather than strictly physical paths, etc.

The following is an example of how you might write and read a pickle file. Note that if you keep appending pickle data to the file, you will need to continue reading from the file until you find …