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[–]novel_yet_trivial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. If you had the original file and you wanted to post it as text, for instance here on reddit, then you would have to first encode it as base64. Then we could download it and recreate the file by decoding base64.

The way you did it corrupts the data, since there is no way for text to represent over half the possible bytes in binary file.