# How to extract .urb files **URL:** \ **Category:** General Application Help: How do I?\ **Created:** [April 19, 2022, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/how-to-extract-urb-files/20674 "2022-04-19T11:59:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cags](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.universal-robots.com/cags/32/6304_2.png) [@cags](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/cags)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/how-to-extract-urb-files/20674/1 "2022-04-19T11:59:01Z")
I need to recover a URP program from an old robot (which is not longer available), and the only thing left is a backup in .urb format. It is not possible to restore a .urb backup in another robot (because the serial numbers don’t match), so I need to extract the file, navigate to the `/programs/` folder and get my old URP program back from the file explorer. Issue is, I cannot find a way to extract the .urb file. It can extract the mounting files, but I cannot access the .img files because apparently they are corrupt. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/universal_robots/original/2X/4/4dbc7b96e3473cec23964d5521c142b4de7f7e31.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/universal_robots/original/2X/0/0679c12e9e9dcd7b1f2dc62a5de5f981004eb8ad.png) Has anybody any idea how to open them? Any experience with .urb files? ---
**Author:** ![anon507564](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@anon507564](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/anon507564)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/how-to-extract-urb-files/20674/2 "2022-04-19T12:54:37Z")
Once you extract the file(s) from the URB (compressed file) you should be able to open it with any text editor. It’s just a script file with a different (or no) extension.