InfoPath guides — open, export and archive your form data

Microsoft's support for InfoPath ended on 14 July 2026. The point of these guides is to make that date a non-event for your records.

Start here if something has stopped working

"InfoPath cannot open a new form" — what each error means

Four different messages, four different causes, and the free fixes worth trying in order — starting with a cache clear that takes ninety seconds.

Your `.xml` opens as raw XML: the missing-template problem

A record points at its template by URL. When that location goes, the form stops rendering. How to read the pointer, repoint it, and cope when the template is gone for good.

Can you still install InfoPath in 2026?

What is actually true about obtaining the Filler client now, the legitimate places it may still exist, and why reinstating it is usually the wrong goal for historical records.

How to open an `.xsn` file without InfoPath

An .xsn is a Cabinet archive of open XML. What is inside it, how to extract it free on Windows, macOS or Linux, and how to read the schema and views.

Getting the data out and keeping it

How to export InfoPath form data to CSV or Excel

Four routes to a spreadsheet compared honestly — including the repeating-section trap that quietly costs people rows.

How to archive InfoPath forms as PDF for records retention

Written for whoever answers the auditor: what an archive has to contain, the free PDF routes and where they stop, and a plan you could start this week.

How to export and recover InfoPath (.xsn) forms and data

What is actually inside an .xsn, why the data is recoverable, and every honest way to get the fields out.

How to archive InfoPath form data

A calm, do-it-in-order workflow: inventory, protect the originals, export to open formats, build an auditable archive.

InfoPath end of support: an archivist's checklist

A print-friendly, tick-as-you-go checklist for records and compliance teams.

What happens to my InfoPath forms after 14 July 2026?

Your files were not deleted — but the app that read them has gone. The plain-English answer, and what to do about it.

When you are ready to get the data out

XSN Rescue reads your InfoPath files on your own machine, read-only, and exports to CSV, JSON and HTML plus a self-contained archival PDF for every recovered record, attachments decoded back into real files, an inventory of the whole folder, and a recovery report naming every file and its outcome. Nothing is uploaded and there is no account.

What the free download is, plainly. It is an on-screen preview: open your own records with it and it shows you what it recovered, so you find out what comes back before any money is involved. The licence is what turns that screen into the files listed above, saved to a folder you choose and yours to keep.

Platform. XSN Rescue runs on macOS (10.15 or later, Intel and Apple silicon, one universal download) and on Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit). Both are the same version and the same price — one purchase covers both. There is no Linux build, and we are not giving a date for one. The free routes described in these guides work on Windows, macOS and Linux today.

Open, export and archive your InfoPath form data

Start here if something has stopped working

Getting the data out and keeping it

When you are ready to get the data out