Logic song saved audio files as 'Exec files'.... !? Please help!!!

Open Logic, check the names in the audio window, if they are the same you can add the extension and hide it and it should load up fine. Other case would be add the extension and not hide it, but to relink the files in Loigc is what you want to do so just make the name the same as they appear in audio window.

just to summarize justin's detailed remarks...stick ".aif" on the end of the files and they should be recognized as audio files.

If you change the extension the icon, opening app, etc should change....did it not change?

It's prolly just from the format/extension the being wrong guess (and it expecting a different header).

.aifc is not an extension Logic records.

.wav
.wal
.war
.aif
.ail
.air
.sd2
.L
.R
.dav
.ovm

Those odd ones are in case your collaborator uses split stereo, and the last 2 are overviews/non-mac from Windows. The audio window may reveal the extension it expects (you should match the name it expects so you needn't manually relink-keep extension hiding in mind). Otherwise try sd2 aif or wav and see if any open up in iTunes (for speed), where (system) is the session coming from? Can you ask the sender the format if this doesn't work?

At times like this, I use Amadeus' option to import raw format, provided I can tell it the sampling rate, the sample size - 8, 16, 24... bits - and the number of channels, i.e. the number of samples per frame.

http://www.hairersoft.com/Amadeus.html

And, of course, I have to tell Amadeus whether it's a big or little endian format. That's all there is to know: the header size I leave to zero, since I don't know nothing about it.

If the data doesn't make sense - I mean, if it renders as noise, I'd first switch from big to little endian, then I'd try stereo instead of mono, or another sample size or sampling rate...

But it might help to look at the 4-byte type located at offset 8 from top of file: this will tell you if it's aiff, wave or whatever. Once you get the type correct, Amadeus will figure out the other parameters and should open the file rightaway - or you could set it yourself in the type-meta data filed and QuickTime, as well as Logic, can now open the file.

Hope this helps - if not, try posting one of the offending files, and we'll see what we can do...

If you're proficient enough with the terminal, there's also a Unix command, named file that might help you. In the excerpt below, I've navigated to my desktop folder, where there's an audio file named Scat D5:

~/Desktop : file Scat\ D5
Scat D5: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 32000 Hz

This won't tell you the header length, but, hey, you do not have to care...

I suspect the files had transited via a wintel-formatted disk, so they lost their meta-data tags - type and creator information. And since they don't have any extension, there's only one way to tell what kind of file they are, and it's the file shell-command I already mentioned.

The moral of the story is you should always use HFS-formatted disk, unless you know what you're doing - moreover, an Apple machine is slower at reading non-Apple disks than reading HFS.