Re: Fixing Mac files on a Windows 2000 server


"Daniel Reibelt" <daniel.reibelt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:BF4C7CA1.12D5%daniel.reibelt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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
>

I just had the same thing happen here. I just put two new Tiger machines on
the network, and one is showing all the font files on the Mac volume of a
Windows 2000 share as Unix executables while the other is showing them as
normal font files. I haven't found a solution yet either, but maybe that
information will help.


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