Files converted to Unix Executable Files
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
goshoh wrote:
I recently downloaded some old files that I'd saved to my iMac and many of them were converted to a 'Unix Executable File'. All of them were either Pagemaker, Quark, or Illustrator files from about 1991 thru 1994.
goshoh wrote:
I did try just adding an extension but that doesn't seem to work.
There seems to be a lot of talk that the files must have, at some point, been written to a 'FAT32' format disk (?) and that their 'resource fork' has somehow been stripped from the files.
I stumbled across someone who said that all Mac's should come equipped with a program that included the word 'X-ray' in it, specifically for this problem, but I didn't write it down and couldn't find that particular piece of advice/web site again.
All of them were either Pagemaker, Quark, or Illustrator files from about 1991 thru 1994.
a program that included the word 'X-ray' in it
but they state that it is compatible only up to OS X 10.4 PPC (?)
What's odd is that I have many files from this historic disk.
It's only the files that have been categorized/identified by OSX as Unix Executable File(s) that cannot be opened by anything buy TextEdit.
Not sure what you mean by 'post the names of a couple of them'.
Illustrator files come across in any number of different ways, most often as simple text files (and they open).
I'm wading through all of the issues I'm finding with Pagemaker/InDesign users, which is hard to fathom since Adobe bought Pagemaker years ago.
I'm wondering if the problem could be with a plug-in that I'm missing and I need to do a trial version of Pagemaker Plug-In Pack for InDesign, convert the files and let the trial period expire.
but XRay has worked on many of them.
Files converted to Unix Executable Files