Supported Native Data Types

Native data are files generated by the originating application. For example, Microsoft Word creates .doc and .docx files. Everlaw supports automatic native uploading and processing for the following file formats (you can use CTRL+F to easily search this document for the desired file extension):

Email and Chat Formats

• EML, EMLX 
• Google Chat (including legacy Hangouts in JSON format)
• iChat (DB)
• Microsoft Teams
• Slack (as it was originally exported from Slack: a .zip file that includes files "users.json", "channels.json", and "integration_logs.json", plus any message .json files)
• Lotus Notes (NSF)
• MBox
• MSG 
• OST
• PST
• OLM (Outlook for Mac)
• iOS WhatsApp (SQLite)
  
• Outlook Express databases
  
• TNEF (transport-neutral encapsulation format)
  
• Instant Bloomberg (IBXML)
  • Please package any associated attachments in the same container file as the IBXML file before upload
• Bloomberg Messages (MSGXML)
  • Please package any associated attachments in the same container file as the MSGXML file before upload
• Discord (provisional support; email support@everlaw.com to upload)

Container Files

• 7Zip (7Z)
  
• AD1 (AccessData Images)
  
• E01, Ex01 (Encase)
  
• GZip, GZ
  
• Bzip
  
• Zlib-compressed data
  
• L01, Lx01 (Encase Logical Image)
  
• PST
  
• OLM (Outlook for Mac)
• RAR
  
• TAR, TGZ
  
• JAR
• WAR
• TrueCrypt
  
• ZIP (including split zip files)
  
• AppleSingle
  
• CAB
  
• DBX
  
• MacBinary
  
• LEF (LiveNote Evidence File)
  
• Cellebrite UFDR Archive

Web Formats

• HTML (HTM, HTML, XHTML, SHTML)
• MHTML, MHT
• SVG

Document Formats

• Microsoft: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote (DOCX, DOC, DOCM, DOC95, RTF, PPT, PPS, PPTX, PPM, XLS, XLSX, XLT, XLS95, XLT5, XLSM, XLR, XLSB)
• Spreadsheets
• Visio
  
• OpenOffice document formats
  
• PDF
  
• iWork (Pages, Numbers, Key, limited support)
  
• WPD (WordPerfect)
  
• RTF (Rich text)
  
• All plain text files (TXT, CSV, XML, JSON, source code, etc.)
• QuattroPro (QPW, limited support)
  
• Lotus
  
• HWP
  
• Google Drive files
  
• XPS
  
• EPUB
• PTX
• XFA

Image Formats

Most common image formats

• Including GIF, TIF, TIFF, PNG, JPG, JPEG, HEIF, HEIC, PBM, TGA, JXR, DNG, WMF (Windows Metafile), EMF
• Limited support for BMP files (PDFs may not be generated)

Medical Image Formats

• DICOM (DCM) 

CAD Formats

• DGN (V7, V8)
  
• DWG
  
• DXF
  
• Solidworks: .sldprtt, .slddrw, .sladasm
  • Limited support: a preview image will only be extracted from files containing an embedded preview image.

Audio and Video

Most common audio and video formats

• Including MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, FLAC, M4A, OGG, AIFF, OGA, AMR, VOX, MPG, MPEG, AVI, WMV, FLV, OGV, MOV, QT, M4V, MP4, WEBM, MPE, ASF, OPUS

Project Management Files

• Microsoft Project (MPP)
  
• Microsoft Project Exchange (MPX)
  
• Microsoft Project Data Interchange Format (MSPDI)
  
• Primavera XML for P3 & P6
  
• Primavera P6 (XER)
  
• Primavera Self-Extracting Archive for P3 & P6 (PRX)

Other

• PTX (electronic transcript)
• ICS (iCalendar)
  
• Apple PropertyList
  
• PostScript
  
• All plain text files (TXT, CSV, XML, source code, etc.)
  
• SQLite databases (SQLITE, SQLITE2)
  
• Disk Images (ISO, etc.)
  
• Common binary file formats (EXE, DLL, MSI, PGP, etc.)
• PCAP
  
• Zendesk exports
  
• DBF (database) 
• eCTD (in zip or submitted as a folder)

Unsupported files might return errors during the Examine stage of the upload process. For more information about troubleshooting errors when uploading native data, please see this article.