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what is Unix Executable File. I just upgraded from 7.4 to 8.01 on MAc OS 10.7.5...for the sole purpose of opening up files as far back 20 yrs to no avail...always on a mac

That kind of thing has cropped up when people have their hard drives repaired and returned. Something to do with the way the drive was formatted. Are any of your drives formatted for a PC? Are you running boot camp or anything like that?

There is a fix as I recall. I'd suggest searching this forum for terms like:

hard drive

recovery

restore

file recovery

The last thread I recall was about 2 or 3 years ago.

no never a PC just a library that was transferred to many different drives ...over the last few years.

It appears to be the same symptom. Might be worth a try. Or not.

Have you run Permissions Repair? If not, do that first.

If that doesn't work, right-click on a project folder, do Get Info. Go to Sharing and Permissions. Make sure your admin account is one of the Users - if not add. Make sure that all users have Read and Write Privileges. Check Apply to enclosed items.

This doesn't always do it but it works for many, myself included.

When the files turn up unix executable that usually means that the resource fork has been stripped off either buy copying them over a network or to/from PC FAT formatted drives. Since DP8 now uses a .dpdoc extension for session files to maintain PC compatibility, you might be able to just add the extension and open that file. Haven't had the opportunity to try that yet. The bigger problem is with the audio files if they were SD2. You could try adding .sd2 extension to a couple of audio files, but I don't think that will work. With SD2, the resource fork contains the header, so you lose the sample rate and bit depth when it's stripped. Just adding an extension doesn't get it because the file would be headerless. You can convert the files with Soundhack which will read the raw audio file and then let you add the header and rewrite the file with resource fork - long and tedious process, but maybe the only option if you really want to recover the session with SD2 files. On the other hand, for WAV and AIFF most of the time you can just add the extension - the header is contained in the file. Maybe you were using AIFF rather than SD2?

Apple has long ago deprecated resource forks in favor of extensions, but there are still a few apps out there that rely on them. DP8 still uses one copy of the session file for Mac that uses a resource fork and one copy for PC with an extension, but I have to believe they'll transition out of that. This is a common problem for anyone who copied files to off the shelf drives over the years without reformatting them to HFS/HFS+.

NazRat wrote:When the files turn up unix executable that usually means that the resource fork has been stripped off either buy copying them over a network or to/from PC FAT formatted drives. Since DP8 now uses a .dpdoc extension for session files to maintain PC compatibility, you might be able to just add the extension and open that file. Haven't had the opportunity to try that yet. The bigger problem is with the audio files if they were SD2. You could try adding .sd2 extension to a couple of audio files, but I don't think that will work. With SD2, the resource fork contains the header, so you lose the sample rate and bit depth when it's stripped. Just adding an extension doesn't get it because the file would be headerless. You can convert the files with Soundhack which will read the raw audio file and then let you add the header and rewrite the file with resource fork - long and tedious process, but maybe the only option if you really want to recover the session with SD2 files. On the other hand, for WAV and AIFF most of the time you can just add the extension - the header is contained in the file. Maybe you were using AIFF rather than SD2?

Apple has long ago deprecated resource forks in favor of extensions, but there are still a few apps out there that rely on them. DP8 still uses one copy of the session file for Mac that uses a resource fork and one copy for PC with an extension, but I have to believe they'll transition out of that. This is a common problem for anyone who copied files to off the shelf drives over the years without reformatting them to HFS/HFS+.

If you have QuickTime Pro 7.6.6, that can also be used. Switch.app can do batch file conversion of audio.