File Extension FOL

File type: 1st Reader folder of saved messages, pfs:First Choice database file

About the FOL file type:

If Windows cannot find the appropriate program associated with .FOL files, then your registry may have errors. Check your Windows registry for errors (includes file association errors).

Two old applications use the FOL file extension. These are the 1st Reader and the First Choice Database. For the 1st Reader application, the FOL file extension names the folder of the application's saved messages. For this application, the FOL file extension is utilized as a collection of different saved data for the 1st Reader.


Detailed information for file extension FOL

Category: Database files
File format: Proprietary
Open with Windows: First Choice
Open with Linux: N/A
Meanwhile, the FOL file extension functions as a database file for the First Choice Database program. This application was included in the software package for DOS-based personal computers. It existed before the popularity of Microsoft Windows. Although old, the First Choice application works the same as the common database applications today like Microsoft Access and those from Oracle. The general idea of how this application works is to allow the creation of a database or a group of information or data in an orderly manner. However, the First Choice application is not as user-friendly as the common database applications today. The FOL file extension is a flat file that names all the databases created through the First Choice application. However, no modern program can open the FOL file extension as a database file and there is no available downloadable First Choice program to open it. Users who want to read the content of FOL database files can simply convert this file format to more common database files of today such as the application FirstOut.