Download and install the latest version of Filestar.
Right click on one or more Fts file(s) on your desktop and select Convert with Filestar.
Type convert to sgi in the search box.
Press Convert.
Or let an AI agent do it: filestarcli -i photo.fts -c "convert to sgi" (how).
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Let your AI agent convert FTS to SGI
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents can do this on your computer with Filestar. Your files stay on your machine.
Install Filestar and add it to your agents:
npm install -g filestar
filestarcli agent install
Then ask your agent:
“Convert the FTS files in my Downloads folder to SGI”
Or run it yourself:
filestarcli -i photo.fts -c "convert to sgi"
Runs on your computer, so your files stay on it. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux. 50 free conversions with the npm install, no account needed.
Can my AI agent convert FTS to SGI?
Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i photo.fts -c "convert to sgi" on your computer, so your files stay on it.
FTS file format is used to edit, store and transmit images with metadata (data with spatial and photometric calibrations) for scientific purposes. Most times it stores the data without the actual associated images.
Image saved in the native graphics format used by Silicon Graphics workstations; can store 8 to 32 bits per pixel; also supports Run-length encoding (RLE) compression for reducing the image file size.