Open ASD File
ASD files have two different applications namely:
Microsoft Word
An ASD file is an automatically saved backup file for a Microsoft Word document in its versions 2002 or 2003.
ASD file is generally used to recover Word file that is corrupted or lost due to system crashes or software problems.
It is possible to get an error when opening an ASD file, through a message of 'Type not supported and you cannot open it'. In case of such error you can try to convert ASD file to another compatible format.
You can open an ASD file in Word and convert it to a DOC file.
Newer versions of Word save ASD files in the following directories by default:
- Windows Vista / 7: [user] AppData \ Roaming \ Microsoft \ Word
- Windows XP: [user] \ NApplication Data \ NMicrosoftWord
Open / Convert an ASD file
The following steps are to open an ASD file and later convert it to DOC, to recover lost work:
Step 1
Open Microsoft Word. Click the 'File' menu and click 'Open'.
Step 2
Go to the username folder. You can find it in the drop-down menu at the top of the window.
Step 3
Double click on the 'AppData' sub-folder that is inside the user folder. Double-click in the 'Roaming' folder and select the 'Windows' folder.
Open the 'Word' folder.
Step 4
Click the drop-down menu at the bottom of the window labeled 'File Type' and click 'All Files'.
Double-click the ASD file to open it.
Step 5
Click the 'File' menu and click 'Save As'.
Under 'Save As', select the DOC file format. Select a location for the converted file, enter a name, and click 'Save'.
Ableton Live
In this application, the ASD file is a file created by Ableton Live, an audio production application.
The ASD file, in this case, is created when a new sample is recorded or when a sample is imported for the first time, which contains metadata about the audio sample
For general information, Ableton Live creates ASD files in the same directory as the recorded or imported sound clip.