.BK File Extension
FrameMaker Book File
| Developer | Adobe Systems |
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3.2 | 139 Votes |
What is a BK file?
A BK file contains a book created with Adobe FrameMaker, a program used to author, enrich, manage, and publish technical documentation. It contains pages that are formatted for print and may include text as well as raster and bitmap images. BK files were replaced with .BOOK files by FrameMaker.
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You most likely will only encounter BK book files if you use early versions of Adobe FrameMaker to compose technical documents. The purpose of BK book files is to organize multiple pages (stored in .FM files) into one composition, much like a real-life book.
While books are an important aspect of FrameMaker, BK files are no longer commonly used by the software for saving books. In the mid-1990s, FrameMaker began saving books in version 5 with the .book file extension instead of the .bk file extension.
NOTE: Since the BK format is old and deprecated you should save your books in FrameMaker as BOOK files instead of BK files.
Programs that open BK files
Smart Switch Backup
| Developer | Samsung |
| Popularity |
3.1 | 38 Votes |
SmartSwitchBackup.bk is a backup control file included in a backup created by Samsung Smart Switch. It contains data used to restore a user's data to a Samsung Galaxy phone. SmartSwitchBackup.bk is not meant to be manually opened by users.
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Samsung Smart Switch is the official backup app used to transfer a user's contacts, photos, settings, call history, and other data from one Samsung Galaxy phone to another. Each Smart Switch backup contains several folders that contain encrypted files (such as .SNMM and .EXML files). Each backup also includes a BK file named SmartSwitchBackup.bk. SmartSwitchBackup.bk is the central file Samsung Smart Switch uses to restore the data a user's Smart Switch backup contains.
NOTE: Some versions of Samsung Smart Switch and Samsung Kies (a previous Samsung backup application) produce additional BK files, which contain specific subsets of your backup data.
How to open a BK file
SmartSwitchBackup.bk is not meant to be manually opened. You can use Samsung Smart Switch (Android, Windows, Mac) to restore a backup that contains a BK file(s) to your Samsung Galaxy device. You can also use MOBILedit Forensic Express (Windows) to load and browse a backup that contains a BK file(s).