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I'm looking for a gratis software that can convert a large dbf file called gpmouve.dbf (1 Gigabyte in size) to a csv file.

All the options I found are either not gratis or not working correctly.

I wish to have the dbf converted to csv in one go. But it can be several if needed albeit useless from my point of view.

Thanks

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  • What does "(1 Go)" mean? Was that supposed to be gigabyte? Or maybe there is a database called 1 Go? Or do you mean it has to happen all in one go (rather than in stages)?
    – John Y
    Dec 22, 2017 at 16:01
  • hi@JohnY, question updated.
    – Andy K
    Dec 22, 2017 at 17:13
  • I still don't know what unit of size "Go" is. If you want people to understand, you should either use a standard abbreviation (in English if it makes a difference, since this is an English-language site) or write out the word(s). Not that it matters too much for this question, but it's something you should keep in mind in general.
    – John Y
    Dec 22, 2017 at 17:21

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If you're willing to do a slight bit of coding in Python (which seems likely, based on your profile), you could try using either dbf or dbfread.

The former includes an export facility (callable either as a method on the table object or as a module-level function) which can generate a CSV. The latter has a short, easy-to-understand code example for copying to CSV row by row in a loop.

I have not had to work with huge amounts of data, so I do not know if your file size will pose a problem for either package.

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