PC Icon and missing Resource Forks

[ACraib]

Hi

I've got some file that have a generic PC icon (they should be photoshop files). If I try anf open them in photoshop I get told that the file is the wrong type (I'm assuming that the resource fork is missing).

is there a way to fix this (I don't have access to the original files) ?

I've tried Disk First Aid and Norton.

Cheers

andrew

 

[blueark]

The resource fork shouldn't be neccessary to open Photoshop files. You should still be able to open them from within Photoshop, although double-clicking them mightn't work until you resave them. You could try one of the following:

1. Add a file extension. If it's a photoshop file, add .psd to the filename, a tiff file use .tif, jpeg, use .jpg, etc, etc...

2. Try adding .bin or .hqx to the file name and double-clicking it.

Failing that, here's a few questions that might help. Where did the file originate? Was it a Mac file that was emailed from a PC? Is the file encoded in some way (eg compressed)? Perhaps you could open the file in a text/hex editor and tell us what the first few charactors are -- this can sometimes give a clue as to what type of file it is.

 

[ACraib]

Thansk for the quick response. The files we created on a mac ... then copied to a windows 2000 server running services for mac and then copied back to a mac when they went 'wrong'

I managed to find a util that fix/addedd the resource fork back.

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/PSTV_macdownloads.html

thanks for your help.

Andrew

 

[harolda]

Were either of the macs running OS X? I' ve had a problem copying from OS X to Win2K, back to OS 9.2.2 and loosing file types.

 

[ACraib]

All of my macs were running OS9.1 or later .... we had no OS X machines at the time.