04-04-2013, 06:44 AM
(04-04-2013, 12:36 AM)-Q- Wrote: Problem is, all the (presumably) png and bmp files are compressed using some weird .inflated format, which I couldn't make heads or tails of.
I know this doesn't help with the issue at all but
I think those people didn't understand the inflate/deflate aspect of compression. Deflate -> compress, inflate -> decompress. So ".deflated" would be more correct for a compressed file!
To be more precise, "DEFLATE" is the name of a specific compression algorithm, using a combination of LZ77 and Huffman. It's used by gzip, PNG and ZIP files (among others).
This is really far-fetched, but maybe those files use this compression method (they could just as well use any other, though). You could try to rename them to .gz and .zip and see if either can be decompressed with their respective decompressor - if you're lucky, they're of one of these file types. I'd say it's worth to try, even if it's likely to fail.