Mac OS 9 Resource Fork Problem

[leesgritt]

We have 5 macs at work accessing a windows 2000 server which contains the image files they work with. The folder containing these images was accidentally deleted and restored from the previous nights backup but the folder containing the resource fork information was not backed up, hence the macs do not understand the files. Is there an automated program or utility that can restore this resource fork information as there are about 15000 files and this would take far too long to do individually.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Lee.

 

[Ecaboodle]

A key thing to stop this happening in the future is to put .tif or .eps or what ever the file extention should be on the end of the files.

You could try running a photoshop batch opening and closing all the files. If you can't fix it in 20 minutes call someone who can.

 

[PTmon]

There is a shareware utility called "Filebuddy". WIth it you can add/edit creator/file type info. YOu can also make "droplets" small little scripts that you can drag and drop the files onto. I use one to do just about exactly the same thing you need to do. When our PC users created files they of course do not have resource forks, I drag them on to several droplets I created to make it easier for the macs to open them. I have one for jpegs, psd, fla, swf, tif, etc. I can drag a whole batch of files onto the droplet and it very quickly adds this info to each file.
PT

http://mahon.homeip.net/remember

 

[MAC4EVER]

Download the app Resedit for Mac OS - freeware

http://207.208.148.74/support_files/resedit.shtml