alphabetical list of extensions

File extension .MIM

File description

Files with the MIM extension are used by internet email programs. These files contain 8-bit data and other characters. They are known as Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extension files. They contain file attachments and audio and video clips. In this way, email messages may contain more than text and ASCII characters.

Files with the MIM extension are identical to MIMe file formats. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension files, or MIMe files, The original Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) format in RFC 822 hasn’t changed, all messages are still encoded in text format. MIM files simply encode audio, video, and extended data into the text format for inclusion in MIMe files.

Description of the problem

If you have on your computer a .MIM file that you cannot open, you are in exactly the same situation as thousands of other people who have similar problems with this or any other unknown file.

There may be several reasons why you cannot open the file with .MIM extension. Directly on this website you can find a solution of the most common problem with the .MIM file – that you do not have on your computer the appropriate program to open the file.

Solution

From the list below, select the appropriate program, install it and double click on the icon of a file that did not want to open - the problem with the .MIM file extension should be solved. However, if this does not happen, go back to the website to learn about other possible causes of the error, which have been described at the bottom of the website.

Other possible reasons why your .MIM file does not want to open

In addition to the problem described above, i.e. the lack of the appropriate application to support the .MIM file, there may be several reasons that cause problems with opening and operation of the data format:

1. Incorrect version of the installed application

A quite common problem is the lack of application in the appropriate version. Even if you have an application, with the help of which you should open the .MIM file, you may have a problem with it because of its version. Perhaps in previous versions the application has not yet supported the .MIM file, so download the update and check again.

2. Incorrect .MIM file association with the program

If you have already installed the appropriate application, and it is the correct version, the file may not open correctly, because the operating system does not have information that this program supports the file. So you need to "show" which program the computer should use. To do this:

Right-click the .MIM file
Go to the "Open with" - then "Choose default program ..."
Locate the appropriate application
Click "OK"

3. The file is corrupt

It also happens that the file you want to open is corrupt and therefore there is no such possibility. In this situation, you should find its different version, or ask a person from whom you got, to send it again.