Re: Fixing Mac files on a Windows 2000 server

On 2/9/05 11:41 PM, in article e3j9VQ8rFHA.904@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jason
Fischer" <jfischer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> William Smith wrote:
>> In article <OuwZcLZqFHA.3920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Jason Fischer <jfischer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We've got a Win2k SP4 server being access by some OS X 10.3.8 Mac's.
>>> Things were working fine until recently, when for some reason all the
>>> user's .ai and .eps files on this particular server were seen as Unix
>>> Executable files by the Mac's. We have other Windows servers being used
>>> by the Mac's that don't have this problem.
>>>
>>> Is there a utility I can run to fix this, besides Chkdsk (which didn't
>>> seem to work)?
>>
>>
>> Hi Jason!
>>
>> Can you select one or multiple files of the same type and correct them
>> by opening a Get Info window and setting the "Open with" to the correct
>> application?
>>
>> bill
>
> Thanks for the response! We can do that for individual files, but it
> will only work once, then revert back. If we change the extension to
> .ai or .eps then it will hold, but then file name will be foo.ai.ai.
>
> This wouldn't be that big a deal, but we've got thousands of files that
> now have this problem.
>
> Jason

You might find that the files have been given a foo.ai.exe name with the
..exe part being hidden, as macs hide the extension. Im not sure how, but
If you did a search for files with the .ai.exe suffix, then used some type
batch rename via applescript or something, your could remove the .exe.

Sounds good in theory ay!

Daniel

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